Maisie at 8000 Feet

ISBN-13: 9781609531287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 250 str.

Frederick Reuss

Opis

"Maisie at 8000 Feet" is the story of an eight-year old girl who can fly and her idyllic summer in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey that ends in a moment of catastrophic loss. Following the death of her mother, Maisie travels the Pine Barrens with her artist/archaeologist father; meets his cousin and confidante, Sally, who wants to repair the little girl s heart; and flies over it all trying to see how her life could have taken such a turn.
Many years later, her son gone to college and her marriage ended, Maisie struggles to reconnect with the aging Sally. Doing so, she hopes to understand why her father didn t raise her, what that long-ago summer was all about, and whether she has ever really been attached to anyone in any place.
Seen from the heights of Maisie s childlike imagination and the rootless perspective of the woman she becomes, the fractures in her life reveal the slippery connection between childhood and identity and between remembering and forgetting."