Mavis

By Brenda K. Marshall

Book Overview

"FASCINATING . . . A??memorable central character and a noteworthy debut ." --Gail Godwin Mavis Schmidt Holmstead has always been the strong one. The oldest of six sisters who grew up on a North... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449225712
• ISBN13: 9780449225714
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Mavis feels so very familiar

Growing up 50 minutes east of Fargo with plenty of family in North Dakota, the characters and places all feel very real to me. To be truthful, I've hung out at "The Office", shopped at Hornbacher's and understand that West Fargo is different from Fargo. When Brenda writes about the North Dakota sky, I don't have to imagine, I just remember. Her prose is poetic, her characterizations full, and her story wonderfully told. Thank you, Brenda!

Blood thicker than water in this rural community

I found this book to be interesting enough that I hated for it to end. As the author took me through the rural area of the Dakotas, I could reach back in my early childhood days and visualize the community, the people, the weather and the relics of generations of hand me downs even though I come from another part of the country. I like dialogue but the descriptive scenes were not boring but entertaining and put me right there. I appreciated the togetherness of the sisters in spite of their differences and infighting and I liked the closeness of those on the fringe of the immediate family. We knew most of what was going to happen as we went along but how it unfolded and how they were going to deal with it, including the authorities, kept me reading. I would like to read more of this author.

Very well written.

Mavis is the first book I read by Brenda K.Marshall and I personally think that she is a very good writer. What I liked about this book is that she didn't give the story away, which I thought was very impressive, because usually in books like these, the author may give the story away a little too soon. What I didn't like about this novel is that I never found out about who got accused for the murder. I would reccommend this book for grades seven and up.