Rowing In Eden
By (Author) Elizabeth Evans
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
HarperCollins
22nd May 2002
United States
General
Fiction
813.54
352
Width 147mm, Height 202mm, Spine 21mm
276g
Franny is the youngest of three daughters, and at thirteen she is just beginning to see her family and the world as they truly exist. ROWING IN EDEN tells the story, through Franny's eyes, of one summer at Pynch Lake, the midwestern resort where the family has gone for generations, and now lives full time in somewhat reduced financial circumstances. Franny, caught in that strange hinterland between childhood and adolescence, becomes increasingly entwined in the lives of her older sisters. She is their confidant, but is too young to drink and attend the nightly parties by the lake. She is too young to have an ever changing string of boyfriends. She is too young to fall truly in love, isn't she And then she meets Ryan Marvel, an eighteen year old college freshman. Like Beth Gutcheon, Elizabeth Evans paints a masterful portrait of adolescence and a powerful, if unusual, love story.
Elizabeth Evans is the author of the acclaimed novels THE BLUE HOUR AND CARTER CLAY, named by the Los Angeles Times as one of the Best books of the Year.