- Coming of age, Family life, Farm life, Fiction
A young woman, looking back on her childhood, recounts her farm family's poverty, her father's cowardice, and her younger brother's obsession for digging tunnels and living underground.
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and intimate.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Sonya Hartnett
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 242
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press, Bolinda Audio, Penguin
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780763616205
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