Molly Flanagan & the Holy Ghost

By Margaret Skinner

Book Overview

In mid-1950s Memphis, Tennessee, twelve-year-old Molly Flanagan struggles with double vision, family drama, piano lessons, and her own self-confidence, all while feeling pulled between the religious... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935708481
• ISBN13: 9781935708483
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Press 53
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Double Vision

"It was unfair when you looked so much like that small dot of stupidity that was in you, as if that dot were the whole of it and nothing more."--"Molly Flanagan and the Holy Ghost." This novel invites us into a little girl's world with precious detail and smart, hard-hitting statements such as the one above that open a window on the world by moving past the story at hand and shedding light on Living. Skinner paints her characters with a fine touch--she captures the ache of a younger sister with a intellectual, talented brother who just seems to Do Everything Well. And you learn to love Molly, with her double vision and her religious obsessions, her frustrated piano playing and her intuition about other people's troubles. I am very surprised that this is an out-of-print book but perhaps someone will soon come to their senses and put it back into circulation.