Girl in Landscape
Ratings8
Average rating3.6
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Ratings8
Average rating3.6
The heroine is fourteen-year-old Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just as her family flees a postapocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Hating her ineffectual father, and troubled by a powerful attraction to the virile but dangerous loner who holds sway over the little colony, Pella sets out on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences for the humans in the community, as well as the odd and exotic natives.
Girl in Landscape is a daring exploration of the violent nature of sexual awakening, a meditation on language and perception, and a homage to the great American tradition of the western.
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A coming of age story that isn't schlocky or about a kid “learning who they truly are and the power of love and other wonderfully boring things.” It's the story of a girl who doesn't really fit in with her peers and wants to be older until she learns that most adults aren't any better. It's the story of a girl realizing there are a limited number of people in the world (well universe) who she can connect with regardless of her age. (Or at least that's what I got out of it) It's depressing, it's oddly uplifting, it's wonderfully weird at times and yet very simple.
