London: Cape (1988)

First English Edition.

Near fine in dust jacket.

An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism.

"The honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word!"--Eudora Welty

"A lovely, breathtaking, sometimes heart-wrenching first novel."--Walker Percy. A Literary Guild Selection.