Little Green

By Loretta Stinson

Book Overview

In Little Green, Loretta Stinson's stunning, redemptive first novel, tragedy leaves Janie Marek orphaned and in the care of her stepmother. The novel opens two years later, in 1976, when Janie, at fourteen, runs away. A ride she's hitchhiked leaves her on the freeway outside a Northwestern town. A strip club called The Habit is the closest thing within walking distance, and Janie finds herself working there. Janie falls for Paul Jesse, a drug dealer, and moves in with him as he spirals into addiction and becomes physically abusive. As the violence escalates, Janie finds a job in a bookstore and begins to establish her independence. Leaving Paul after a brutal beating, Janie must reconcile their relationship and make the most difficult, most dangerous choice she'll ever make.

Like Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina and Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Loretta Stinson portrays the psychology of a woman who has experienced violence at the hands of someone she loves and the complexity of leaving with sensitivity and insight. This is a life-affirming story about a woman who finds strength in books, in the promise of education, and in the community of friends who help her find a way out.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979018811
• ISBN13: 9780979018817
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts, Incorporated
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Take my heart out of my chest, rip it apart...

This book was amazing. It was probably one of my favorite books I have read in a very long time. It ripped my heart out and then at the very end, mended it back together. It was beautiful, the characters were beautiful. Please just read this, everyone..read it!