Making Lemonade

June 19, 2010

Tags: Virginia Wolfe Novel

Just finished Make Lemonade. I had never read anything by Virginia Wolfe, and this was a very different kind of writing with lines broken into phrases in a quite conversational manner. It's the story of a 14-year-old who babysits 2-year-old Jeremy and baby Jilly for a 17-year-old single mother named Jolly. But (more…)

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