Picara

by Pat MacEnulty

Book Overview

Eli Burnes grows up under the care of Mattie, an opera singer, and Miz Johnnie, the family maid, in Augusta, Georgia. Eli's alcoholic mother has been gone since Eli was three, and Eli's father,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160489038X
• ISBN13: 9781604890389
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Livingston Press (AL)
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Another Classic

Pat has done it again! I was lucky enough to get to hear parts of this book while it was still being written. I love this book! What a great story and great characters! I couldn't put it down!

Picara

Awesome book! Couldn't put it down. Usually takes a week to read thru a book, but it took 2 days to read through it. Intense and recreates the feelings of the 60's and captures the innocence as well as the turmoil. Eli Burnes is a compelling voice. I loved it. Everyone must read this book!!!!

A Modern Classic

Set in the turbulence of 1970's America, Picara(which means wanderer or vagabond)is a rare blending of fact and fiction that brings this story into startling and vivid focus. MacEnulty's grasp of the time, the maturity and sensitivity she brings to the characters, and her unflinching honesty made me gobble up the pages even when I was hesitant to follow where Eli was leading me. Eli is only fourteen when her world shifts and falls apart yet she displays a core strength and maturity that's unexpected and admirable. I liked her from the first page, and that ability of the author's to make us care about the people who occupy her story is one of the things that makes this book such a delight. Crafted with a skill and talent that's nothing short of amazing, Pat MacEnulty takes us on a breathless adventure through this young girl's life, the good, the bad, the ugly, the heartbreaking. This isn't a book for the faint of heart, but it is a book for the reader who demands depth of character, a strong plot, and and all the elements that make a novel a classic.