“A startling book, full of unexpected words and sentences. I'd recommend this over 2 and 3 star pulp any day." It deals with some decent themes, too, but I think it wasn't focused enough to go anywhere very deep or conclusive, perhaps by choice. The plot might be cliche in places, but I think Egan pulled it off with authenticity - the characters, the dialogue, the relationships and emotions were true to life, and the writing in general was very good. "I could identify with all of the characters, so I think that's a mark of a very good writer. Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across Europe-a quest that yields both complex and disturbing revelations about family, love, and Faith’s
In order to find out the truth about Faith’s life and death,
Memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in In Jennifer Egan’s highly acclaimed first novel, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdropįor the world of eighteen-year-old Phoebe O’Connor.
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