I have wanted to read this slender book for a long time. Yesterday I picked it up from the library and then read it one sitting. It was an excellent experience. I found it haunting and it reminded me very favorably of Carson McCullers' Member of the Wedding.
Synopsis
Annie John is growing up on the magical island of
Antigua. It should be a sojourn in paradise for her but adolescence
takes the brilliant, headstrong girl into open rebellions and secret
discoveries, and finally to a crisis of emotions that wrenches her away
from her island home.
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