Local Girls

Download or read book Local Girls written by Alice Hoffman and published by Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told from Gretel Samuelson's sly and knowing perspective, Local Girls charts her progress as she navigates from childhood to the brink of womanhood, picking her way though the tragedies and absurdities of everyday life in a family which is rocked by divorce and disaster, bad judgement and fierce attachments. Her father has left them, her chain-smoking mother, Franny, is falling apart and refuses to learn the simple lessons of life, her perfect brother has fatal flaws, and even her best friend Jill - blonde, enviable and beautiful - is moving too fast into the unfathomable world of women.