
"A quirky coming-of-age story . . . Female adolescence as imagined by one of the 20th century's best--and most peculiar--writers" (Kirkus Reviews).


Growing up in a boys' school where her father is housemaster, Marigold is convinced of her own plainness and peculiarity. Ripe for seduction by the wrong sort of boy, Marigold suffers comically in her pilgrimage through adolescence.




