Comments on: A Conversation with Jayne Anne Phillips http://reading-group-center.knopfdoubleday.com/2010/01/11/a-conversation-with-jayne-anne-phillips/ Knopf Doubleday Wed, 16 May 2012 19:08:01 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: Karen Langs http://reading-group-center.knopfdoubleday.com/2010/01/11/a-conversation-with-jayne-anne-phillips/comment-page-1/#comment-39850 Karen Langs Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:37:58 +0000 http://knopfdoubleday.com/?p=7276#comment-39850 If the reader does not stick with this book, they are missing out on a real gem! Be patient and all the pieces come together, beautifully, in the end. The writing style is unique and essential to the telling of this unusual coming-of age-story about a teenage girl and her handicapped younger brother. Full of family angst, Jayne Anne Phillips writes a believable and sometimes mystical story of relationships, war and the sorrows of everyday life-a story of surviving, living the lives dealt us, but always with hope. If the reader does not stick with this book, they are missing out on a real gem! Be patient and all the pieces come together, beautifully, in the end.

The writing style is unique and essential to the telling of this unusual coming-of age-story about a teenage girl and her handicapped younger brother. Full of family angst, Jayne Anne Phillips writes a believable and sometimes mystical story of relationships, war and the sorrows of everyday life-a story of surviving, living the lives dealt us, but always with hope.

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