Rima in the Weeds

by Deirdre McNamer

Book Overview

Rima in the Weeds is a classic novel of small-town life and an astonishing first work of fiction about women growing up in a land of limited opportunity and bone-chilling loneliness, who have to first imagine a life for themselves and then create it.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060165235
• ISBN13: 9780060165239
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

What i think of this book

this is a good book that tells the story of two people who are not unalike. they both have problems and both face them and evetually conqure them. they become friends and help each other get through a tradjety that happened.

Adolescence in the 60s

What a wonderful read. The author gave a clear idea of what it felt like to grow up as a young woman in the 60s. It was an adventure, full of the heart-break of real events. The book pointed out that although life does not often have happy endings, some moments do. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and even read it twice, something I rarely do.

Only child, you've been found out...

Only children don't want to reveal--even to other only children--what it's like to be an "only." McNamer sprawls the secrets across the page, threads the feelings through the tale, whispers the solitary questions and unspeakable answers. The interior lives of McNamer's characters echo against an exterior heavy with foreshadowing. This reader often found herself gasping, pulling the still-open book against her breast, knowing and afraid to venture into the inevitable plot events. Yet, except for a few unconnected thoughts and moments, this is a novel that involves the reader throughout and lingers in memory even years after the covers are finally closed