Goldengrove

<p><strong>With a dazzling mix of directness and metaphor Prose captures the centrifugal and isolating force of grief. . . . [<em>Goldengrove</em> is] a moving meditation on how out of the painful passing of innocence and youth sexuality and identity can miraculously emerge. -- <em>Los Angeles Times</em></strong></p><p><strong>An emotionally powerful novel about adolescent love and loss from Francine Prose the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Reading Like a Writer</em> and <em>A Changed Man</em>. </strong></p><p>After the sudden death of her beloved older sister thirteen-year-old Nico finds her life on New England's idyllic Mirror Lake irrevocably altered. Left alone to grope toward understanding she falls into a seductive dangerous relationship with her sister's boyfriend. Over one haunted summer Nico faces that life-changing moment when children realize their parents can no longer help them as she experiences the mystery of loss and recovery. Still for all the darkness at its heart <em>Goldengrove</em> is radiant with the lightness of summer and charged by the restless sexual tension of adolescence.</p>