GRASSLANDS
Debra Seely, . . Holiday, $16.95 (128pp) ISBN 978-0-8234-1731-5
Despite uneven storytelling, this debut novel convincingly illustrates the gaps between the romance of the West and the realities of daily life on a struggling Kansas farm in the early 1880s. At 13, the narrator, Thomas, has already journeyed twice in a covered wagon—westward, from his maternal grandparents' home in Virginia, and then back east soon after, following the death of his mother. Raised by his grandparents, Thomas fantasizes about his father, imagining him as a cowboy, "the kind of man who would not be stuck inside reading
Reviewed on: 11/11/2002
Genre: Children's
Paperback - 198 pages - 978-0-922820-18-4
Paperback - 170 pages - 978-0-14-240365-5
Prebound-Sewn - 978-1-4177-0540-5