Girl in Landscape

Girl in LandscapeBy: Jonathan Lethem Girl in Landscape offers a genre bending, mind expanding tale of a new frontier. Jonathan Lethem's novel is a science fiction Western that evokes both the brooding tragedy of John Ford's The Searchers and the sexual precocity of Nabokov's Lolita. Lethem's heroine is 14 year old Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just as her family flees a post apocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Hating her ineffectual

Twelve-year-old Gabe grew up in the foster care system until a social worker located his Uncle Vernon two years before

Ivy and Seb have stumbled into a plot that could condemn every uncommoner to a disastrous fate

or simply humoring Jon’s latest bout of idiocy

- Context boxes help readers interpret the stories

When Gabe Hamilton saw Mia Crestwell walk into the ballroom for his hotel’s grand opening

others recall loved ones in harm’s way in distant places

In this hilarious story

But something about Aaron bothers Nicky--people seem almost afraid of him and his family

But what will happen when he can’t run any more

There are lots of fun facts to be discovered

Combining three mothers’ points of view in a powerful narrative tale with commentary from entertaining neighborhood listservs

Things were very different