Jump at the Sun - Hardcover

McLarin, Kim

3.71

248 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060528494 ISBN 13: 9780060528492

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2006

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

A searing novel by the author of Meeting of the Waters captures the personal insecurities, mistakes, and complicated relationships of mothers and daughters as it follows the lives of three generations of women, including Grace, a modern, self-made woman determined to avoid the errors of her own mother, who had sacrificed her own needs for her children.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:

"readers will find Grace's desperation heartfelt and her journey absorbing, as told in vigorous, luxuriant prose."--Washington Post

Readers will find Grace's desperation heartfelt and her journey absorbing, as told in vigorous, luxuriant prose.--Washington Post

readers will find Grace s desperation heartfelt and her journey absorbing, as told in vigorous, luxuriant prose. --Washington Post"

Readers will find Grace s desperation heartfelt and her journey absorbing, as told in vigorous, luxuriant prose.--Washington Post"

The book moves like a white-water rafting trip, zipping along through treacherous waters. McLarin's muscular writing spares nobody--Philadelphia Inquirer

About the Author:

Kim McLarin is respected as "one of the bravest novelists in recent times" (Philadelphia Tribune). She is a former journalist for the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Associated Press, among other news organizations. The author of the critically acclaimed novels Taming It Down and Meeting of the Waters, McLarin is currently writer-in-residence at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.