The Silver Star: A Novel

The Silver Star: A Novel

From one of the bestselling memoirists of all time, a stunning and heartbreaking novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult worldâ€”a triumph of imagination and storytelling.

It is 1970. â€œBeanâ€ Holladay is twelve and her sister Liz is fifteen when their artistic mother Charlotte, a woman â€œwho flees every place sheâ€™s ever lived at the first sign of trouble,â€ takes off to â€œfind herself.â€ She leaves her girls enough money for food to last a month or two. But when Bean gets home from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz board a bus from California to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying antebellum mansion thatâ€™s been in the family for generations.

An impetuous optimist, Bean discovers who her father was and learns many stories about why their mother left Virginia in the first place. Money is tight, so Liz and Bean start babysitting and doing office work for Jerry Maddox, foreman of the mill in town, a big man who bullies workers, tenants, and his wife. Bean adores her whip-smart older sister, inventor of word games, reader of Edgar Allan Poe, non-conformist. But when school starts in the fall, itâ€™s Bean who easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz who becomes increasingly withdrawn. And then something happens to Liz in the car with Maddox.

The author of The Glass Castle, hyper-alert to abuse of adult power, has written a gorgeous, riveting, heartbreaking novel about triumph over adversity and about people who find a way to love the world despite its flaws and injustices.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster Audio
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 9781442362857
ReleaseDate 2013-06-11
UnitCount 1
Format Audiobook
EANs 9781442362857

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster Audio
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	9781442362857
ReleaseDate	2013-06-11
UnitCount	1
Format	Audiobook
EANs	9781442362857

The Silver Star: A Novel

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