![]() ![]() ![]() Flax manages never to bring him home to see her daughters) Charlotte surrenders her virginity to the good Joe Peretti, hired man at the convent and little Kate almost drowns in the chill convent pond. ![]() In fact, on a single eventful day, Our Father finally does come to Grove (though Mrs. What's to happen? Well, up on the hill next door happens to stand the Convent of the Protectors of Blessed Souls, where Charlotte, sneaking through the gate, becomes something of a habitual. But with half of her chromosomes, I didn't know what I was supposed to do"") and little sister Kate swims on her school team, washes her rock collection, soaks in the bathtub, and reads assiduously in Fish of the World. Flax goes about the business of her amorous affairs Charlotte yearns for the return of her missing father (she calls him ""Our Father Who Art in Heaven"") and wishes she could become a saint (""I didn't want to be like Mrs. Flax"") is ever on the move, going from town to town (and man to man) across the US, but as the book opens she arrives in the town of Grove, in New England, and it looks as if she and her little family may be going to stay a while: living in their rented house, Mrs. Charlotte's mother (Charlotte calls her only ""Mrs. Frisky but familiar-toned first novel about a precocious 14-year-old girl, her little half-sister, and their ne'er-do-well mother. ![]()
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