Sarah Willis
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A stunning first novel about a young girl's coming-of-age in the 1950s.
Tamara Anderson's father is a landscape artist who quickly tires of the scenery, so every year her family seeks out new locations for his inspiration. When the Andersons move to a farmhouse in Sherman, New York, in the spring of 1954, fifteen-year-old Tamara and her mother want to settle down and make it home. Sherman begins to work a strange magic on Tamara and her siblings:...