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"A modern fairy tale.... December offers the pleasures of beautifully composed scenes and...an exact rendering of a child's acute perceptions."--The New York Times Book Review"Winthrop carefully and expertly builds the layers of her characters until they are deeply, beautifully drawn.... December is as brilliant and hopeful as its protagonist." --The Plain Dealer"Winthrop's prose is crisp and poised and her characterizations convincing.... These people feel lived in and authentic."--The New York Observer
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When people ask me what December is about, I sum it up this way, because it is easiest: `It is about an eleven-year old girl who won't speak, and hasn't spoken for the past nine months.' People then want to know why. Why won't she speak? What happened? Will she ever speak again? They generally look forward and backward from the situation, wanting causes and solutions, but what I was more interested in while writing the book was the situation itself, and what effect it was having on the characters involved. Isabelle's silence is the giant beast around which the three main characters triangulate, peering around it at each other when they're not fixating on the thing itself. It brings forth a whole host of emotions in each of the characters: shame, frustration, fear, regret, desperation, anger, hope, and, at the center of it all, love.
People often ask whether there was a time in my life when I, like Isabelle, did not speak. The answer to this is no, but her silence, for me, is a metaphor for the way an adolescent girl might manifest the bewilderment with which she views the world, whether it be through depression, addiction, anorexia, or any other number of ways. It isn't necessarily a response to a specific trauma or event as much as it is a reaction to the difficult task of being alive. In this sense, I am writing for all the girls who allegorically lose their voice for a time in the confusing process of growing up; I have been one of those girls too.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0307388573
- ISBN 13 9780307388575
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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