Description: Possessing a "tooth and claw beauty" ("The Boston Globe"), this comic novel is a masterpiece of American life as seen through the looking glass of adolescence. Over summer vacation in the Arizona desert, three girls explore a world seemingly empty of meaning yet filled with eccentricity and random events. A "New York Times" Notable Book.
Review Quotes: "Poetic, disturbing yet very funny ... the brilliantly controlled style [is] informed by a powerful spiritual vision."--The Washington Post Book World
"Joy Williams has produced a hard, sharp, comic novel about the off-kilter genius of adolescence--a work of maverick insight and rash and beautiful bursts of language."--Don DeLillo "Fierce, lively, and shocking.... Possesses a tooth and claw beauty as dangerous and brilliant as a cougar on the move."--The Boston Globe "An intelligent, unsettling, audacious, virtuosic, improbable novel."--The New York Times Book Review "So strange and so good ... so frightening and so comic ... every single element in it is undomesticated, from the characters to the clauses."--Voice Literary Supplement