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radiant debut novel, What Girls Learn takes readers on an intimate and haunting journey into the landscape of girlhood and the complex terrain of the family. Wise, bittersweet, and above all intensely human, this astonishingly powerful novel enchants readers with its humor and insight even as it breaks their hearts.
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In her debut novel, What Girls Learn, author Karin Cook takes familiar--and familial--territory and turns it neatly on its head. Tilden, the 12-year-old narrator of Cook's tale, and her 11-year-old sister Elizabeth are suddenly uprooted from a hardscrabble life in Atlanta and moved to Long Island when their mother falls in love with a man they've never met. Fortunately, Nick turns out to be a kind man, and the girls' enjoy a temporary stability. Then Frances, their mother, discovers a lump in her breast. While she is hospitalized, her predatory brother arrives, and the sisters are thrown back upon a bond that, although stretched by sibling rivalry, can never be broken.
Karin Cook depicts the inner lives of girls on the verge of adolescence with tremendous insight, and in Tilden, she has found a narrator both eloquent and observant. What Girls Learn explores notions of family and femininity and the transcendence of love, even in the face of loss.
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"Cook triumphs completely . . . in her achingly nuanced depiction of a young girl's fierce love for her brave mother."
--The New York Times Book Review
"A poignant first novel. . . . Cook skillfully captures the fumbling steps young girls take toward adulthood."
--People
"Keen and original. Reading Cook's affecting first novel is as intimate and disarming an experience as finding a teenager's secret diary under the mattress."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Poignant and affecting. . . promising and revealing."
--Newsday
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- PublisherPantheon
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0679448284
- ISBN 13 9780679448280
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
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