Pandora

Sylvia Fraser's brash and audacious first novel, "Pandora," sweeps the reader back to the poignant, too-forgotten world of early childhood so rarely recorded in modern fiction. In the character of seven-year-old Pandora Gothic, Fraser has created a fierce and resilient heroine who mirrors the pleasure and agonies of children everywhere. As an affectionate and accurate portrait of the hopes, fears, dreams, and tribulations that prefigure adulthood, "Pandora" is a novel of astonishing literary achievement and sheer unceasing delight.