Goldengrove - Softcover

"With perfect pitch and no trace of sentimentality, Prose . . . lands on the precise emotional key for this novel . . . allowing humor and compassion to seep through the cracks of an otherwise dark tale."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Deeply touching and absorbing..."--Publishers Weekly

"Prose locates the life force that gives her narrator the quirky, irreverent but undeniable sound of a survivor. . . . Prose is tremendously skilled."--Chicago Tribune

"Prose holds up a mirror to grief and family life we can't look away from, revealing their truths on page after page, in beautifully crafted writing."--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"Arguably, "Goldengrove" is her best book yet."--Seattle Times

"Insightful, lyrical... "Goldengrove" is beautifully and simply written...a moving portrait of the search for identity through a landscape of pain and loss."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Prose's skillful rendering of the human ability to accept hard truths and move on is a poignant lesson for us all."--Miami Herald

"With a dazzling mix of directness and metaphor, Prose captures the centrifugal and isolating force of grief...Prose exquisitely renders her characters' grief and bafflement."--Los Angeles Times

"A beautiful narrative that defines resilience as the sometimes heartbreaking act of simply living"--Redbook Magazine

"Ms. Prose is perceptive. . . . Her modest-sounding book turns out to be beautifully wrought.... and yields an unexpectedly rich, tart, eye-opening sense of Nico's world."--New York Times

Grieving independently after the drowning death of her sister, thirteen-year-old Nico falls into a seductive and dangerous relationship with her sister's enigmatic boyfriend throughout the course of a summer during which she realizes that she has moved beyond the help of her parents. Reprint. A best-selling novel. 100,000 first printing.