![]() ![]() One thing Egan does beautifully that I really appreciate is to not tie anything up neatly. ![]() By the end, Phoebe has shed a great deal of her naivite and bravely come to face painful truths about her family and her idealization of them and of the flower-child generation she just missed growing up in. One scene on the beach with the sisters and the dying father made me put the book down for a few days - the narrator's childhood memory was so real and painful. Started off a bit rough but it's smooth now, and quite vivid. Set in 1970s San Francisco and Europe, where the protagonist traces her sister's footsteps. Egan's freshman novel, about a girl who, along with her widowed mother, is frozen in time since the suicide of her hippie sister the decade before. ![]()
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