![]() ![]() Encountering them, she learns to reinhabit an earlier version of her body. Inside, there is the memorabilia of her childhood: photographs and ornaments that remind her both of her lost grandmother and of her lost childhood self. The imagery of the book is fashioned from the scenes and objects that Frankie encounters inside and outside the bungalow. And she has a handful of friendships that have nurtured her into adulthood, though she is too diffident to trust in reciprocal affection. She has unusually functional relationships with her parents, still turning to her mother as a “magic potion” at moments of crisis. ![]() Frankie has studied art history and retains an encyclopaedic knowledge of the art of the past century. Now she’s written about a loner again, this time giving her heroine a richer, more peopled interior life. ![]()
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