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In the Breeze of Passing Things: A Novel,Used
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From Booklist Iva Giles was 10 when her mother first packed up the house and her sister, Mally, and moved them away. When her father found them, they would pack and move again, each time farther away from their original home, and into smaller and smaller houses, and farther away from her father. Iva lives in a dream world that is part past, part reality, and part hope. All she knows is that she was her father's favorite and if she could be with him again, they would all be happy. But each time they move, Iva builds up more resentment toward her mother and loses more of her grasp on her dream of having a family again. So, in an act of desperation, Iva takes a bus back to Mississippi to find her father. But what she finds isn't what she hoped for and what she gains isn't what she expected. Reid, in her first novel, creates in Iva a narrative voice that is strong but scared, intelligent yet naive, jaded and still full of hope. Carolyn KubiszCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Product Description Elevenyearold Iva Giles along with her sister, Mally, and their mother, Lilly, are traveling through the South, fleeing from Iva's depresssed father, who is fixated with water after the death of his brother in a drowning accident. From Publishers Weekly A Southern girl watches her fractured family succumb to chaos as her father is consumed by mental illness in this evocative but rather monotonous first novel. Elevenyearold Iva Giles, her sevenyearold sister, Mally, and their mother, Lilly, crisscross the South in perpetual flight from Iva's father, Jameson, who is depressed and unreliable, fixated on his brother's death in a drowning accident. Gracefully weaving flashback sequences into the family's helterskelter journey, Reid reveals Jameson's dementia and strange obsession with lakes and rivershe eventually becomes so unbalanced that he threatens his family. Iva initially resents her mother, Lilly, whom she views as the unstable parentvillain because of their peripatetic lifestyle and Lilly's disastrous affair with Iva's uncle, Davis. However, Iva discovers a darker side of her idolized father when she runs away and tracks him down in Mississippi. Reid sometimes strives too hard for lyricism ("I couldn't help giggling, so loud Mally woke and shot right to silk"), but she gets Iva's stubborn, innocent voice right. The Southern settingsfrom Texas to Tennesseeare warmly drawn, though the succession of travel scenes become redundant. Reid doesn't transcend the familiar tropes of the motherdaughter roadtrip novel, but this is a richly imagined debut. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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