One Foot Wrong

by Sofie Laguna

Book Overview

"The stars shine brightest out of the deepest dark . . ." A child is imprisoned in a house by her reclusive, religious parents. Hester Wakefield has never spoken to another child, nor seen the outside... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590513169
• ISBN13: 9781590513163
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Other Press (NY)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Strange and stunning

First, I want to offer a quote from the novel: "I took the orange piece from Mary's hand. I put it in my mouth and waited for the end of freedom. Orange water jumped through the air as I chewed....The bell rang and we walked back into the schoolroom swallowing orange." The style throughout this compelling novel is like that--lyrical, confounding, at times disturbing, but always consistent. I haven't read anything better than this--the first novel from Australian writer Laguna--in years. I hope more is coming from this wonderful writer.

Sweetly Disturbing

This was a dark and strange book. In the midst of the horror of Hester's life, her narration was at times oddly, incongruously, beautiful. The limitations of the narrator left some rather important gaps in the story, but in the end, there was surprisingly satisfying closure. It was certainly a unique book and one that almost begs for discussion.