Paper Wings

by Marly Swick (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $4.56

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.42

  The Keller family live in the heart of conservative America in the early 60's. Suzanne is twelve, and loves her mother, Helen, desperately, but she knows that Helen is not like other mothers. In the conventional world they inhabit, Helen's unconventionality represents both the possibilities and the uncertainties of the adult world, and Suzanne observes her mother's passionate attachment to John F Kennedy with a mixture of wonder and apprehension. When the President is assassinated, and Helen's obsession tips into breakdown, only Suzanne has the courage to face up to the reality of her mother's unhappy life and the dark secret at its heart.