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It is 1970 in a small town in California. 'Bean' Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother, Charlotte, takes off to find herself, leaving the girls enough money to last a month or two.When Bean returns from school one day to find a police car outside the house, she and Liz decide to take the bus to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansio that's been in Charlotte's family for generations.
An impetuous optimist, Bean soon discovers who her father was, and hears many stories about their mother left Virginia in the first place. Because money is tight, Liz and Bean start working for the local bully Jerry Maddox, foreman of the mill in town. Bean adores her whip-smart older sister - inventor of word games, reader of Edgar Allen Poe, nonconformist. But when school starts in the fall, it's Bean who easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz who becomes increasingly withdrawn. And then something happens to Liz in the car with Maddox.
Jeannette Walls, supremely alert to abuse of adult power, has written a heartbreaking and redemptive story about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustices of the adult world - a triumph of imagination and storytelling.
Soft cover, excellent condition. As new. 267 pages.
