The girl from Charnelle / K.L. Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, K. L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class families--Fiction.

Working class families.

West Texas.

Teenage girls--Fiction.

Teenage girls.

Texas, West--Fiction.

Texas, West.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Physical Description:

374 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : William Morrow, [2006]

Summary:

It's 1960 in the Panhandle town of Charnelle, Texas -- a year and a half since sixteen-year-old Laura Tate's mother boarded a bus and mysteriously disappeared. Assuming responsibility for the Tate household, Laura cares for her father and three brothers and outwardly maintains a sense of calm. But her balance is upset and the repercussions of her family's struggles are revealed when a chance encounter with a married man leads Laura into a complicated relationship for which she is unprepared.

As Kennedy battles Nixon for the White House, Laura must navigate complex emotional terrain and choose whether she, too, will flee Charnelle. Dramatizing the tension between desire and familial responsibility, "The Girl from Charnelle" delivers a heartfelt portrait of a young woman's reckoning with the paradoxes of love. Eloquent, tender, and heart-wrenching, K. L. Cook's unforgettable debut novel marks the arrival of a significant new voice in American fiction.

ISBN:

0060829656

OCLC:

60589208

Publisher Number:

9780060829650