"I've long thought of Gail Godwin as a present-day George Eliot -- our keenest observer of lifelong, tragically unwitting decisions.
Helen's story, which she tells us when she is an older woman, is focused on the summer when she was a precocious ten-year-old. Her mother is dead, and the "haunted little girl" has more recently lost her grandmother. Flora (the first cousin of Helen's late mother) is looking after Helen for the summer. Helen seems much smarter and more sophisticated than her unwanted, twenty-two-year-old companion from Alabama; Helen believes that Flora is the one who needs looking after.
'Remorseis wired straight to the heart, ' the older Helen tells us. Gail Godwin's Flora is similarly wired -- straight to the heart. The events of Helen's haunted and most formative summer are perfectly plotted to unhinge her; what happens to Helen and Flora will make Helen the woman (and the writer) she becomes. (Helen tells us that a collection of her stories is "about failed loves.")
Flora is a novel as word-perfect and taut as an Alice Munro short story; like Munro, Godwin has flawlessly depicted the kind of fatalistic situation we can encounter in our youth -- one that utterly robs us of our childhood and steers the course for our adult lives.
This is a luminously written, heartbreaking book." --John Irving
"I've long thought of Gail Godwin as a present-day George Eliot -- our keenest observer of lifelong, tragically unwitting decisions.
Helen's story, which she tells us when she is an older woman, is focused on the summer when she was a precocious ten-year-old. Her mother is dead, and the "haunted little girl" has more recently lost her grandmother. Flora (the first cousin of Helen's late mother) is looking after Helen for the summer. Helen seems much smarter and more sophisticated than her unwanted, twenty-two-year-old companion from Alabama; Helen believes that Flora is the one who needs looking after.
'Remorseis wired straight to the heart, ' the older Helen tells us. Gail Godwin's Flora is similarly wired -- straight to the heart. The events of Helen's haunted and most formative summer are perfectly plotted to unhinge her; what happens to Helen and Flora will make Helen the woman (and the writer) she becomes. (Helen tells us that a collection of her stories is "about failed loves.")
Flora is a novel as word-perfect and taut as an Alice Munro short story; like Munro, Godwin has flawlessly depicted the kind of fatalistic situation we can encounter in our youth -- one that utterly robs us of our childhood and steers the course for our adult lives.
This is a luminously written, heartbreaking book." --John Irving
""Flora" is a beautiful examination of character and the far-reaching repercussions of our actions. Gail Godwin brings grace, honesty, and enormous intelligence to every page." --Ann Patchett""Flora" is a tightly focused, painful and eventually eruptive novel. Its ruminative, sometimes regretful narrator explores the complex heart of a child, showing us that it's not inevitably a sweet, gooey thing. It can be, as well, a shuddering volcanic island with but a single haunted inhabitant." --"Christian Science Monitor""VERDICT A superbly crafted, stunning novel by three-time National Book Award award finalist Godwin ("A Mother and Two Daughte
Isolated in a decaying family home while her father performs secret work at the end of World War II, ten-year-old Helen, grieving the losses of her mother and grandmother, and bonds with her sensitive young aunt.
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