After a delusional widowed mother goes missing, her two children who she did not allow out of the home and had created their own fantasy life, are now forced to encounter the real world and real people. When the two children are separated, Asta becomes outgoing trying to adjust to school and her new home while staying devoted to her brother who has become mute.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: girls, fiction, mother-daughter relationship, sibilings, loneliness, family life, maine, fiction, mothers and daughters, social isolation, siblings, brothers and sisters
Editions
Watson, Jan Elizabeth
Tin House Books (2009)
After a delusional widowed mother goes missing, her two children who she did not allow out of the home and had created their own fantasy life, are now forced to encounter the real world and real people. When the two children are separated, Asta becomes outgoing trying to adjust to school and her new home while staying devoted to her brother who has become mute.
Schools: 1
Watson, Jan Elizabeth
In the late 1970s in rural Maine, seven-year-old Asta Hewitt and her brother are convinced by their delusional mother that the world outside their home is a wasteland, and when her mother disappears, Asta has the opportunity to venture beyond her comfort zone.
Schools: 1