Rowing in Eden

By Elizabeth Evans and Elizabeth Evans

Book Overview

Revised

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060954701
• ISBN13: 9780060954703
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Another haunting, beautiful book from Elizabeth Evans

With Franny Wahl, the almost fourteen-year-old heroine of Elizabeth Evans fine third novel, Evans has created a character that is at once endearing and terrifying, as are any and all fourteen-year-old girls. In the summer of 1965, Franny's sexuality blooms right under her distracted parents' noses, even as her middle sister, Martie--the observably wild one--sics their alcohol-fueled father on Franny's college age suitor, Ryan Marvell.As the story progressed, I took every step with Franny: holding back on answering the phone until at least two rings, gazing at the fence where she once sat talking with her beloved and most importantly, Franny's efforts at discovering how to give and receive love without giving up too much of herself. By the end of the book, I began to empathize even with Franny's parents, hard-drinking, impecunious Brick and relentlessy busy Peg. They are simply confused and overwhelmed with the ways that their world has changed. Franny Wahl is a girl I believe as much as I believe my own, long ago, fourteen-year-old self.