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The Girl from Charnelle
K.L. Cook
William Morrow
April 2006
384 pages
ISBN: 0060829656
Hardcover
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Fiction | Contemporary Women's Fiction
It's 1960 in the Panhandle town of Charnelle, Texas -- a
year and a half since sixteen-year-old Laura Tate's mother
boarded a bus and mysteriously disappeared. Assuming
responsibility for the Tate household, Laura cares for her
father and three brothers and outwardly maintains a sense of
calm. But her balance is upset and the repercussions of her
family's struggles are revealed when a chance encounter with
a married man leads Laura into a complicated relationship
for which she is unprepared. As Kennedy battles
Nixon for the White House, Laura must navigate complex
emotional terrain and choose whether she, too, will flee
Charnelle. Dramatizing the tension between desire and
familial responsibility, The Girl from Charnelle
delivers a heartfelt portrait of a young woman's reckoning
with the paradoxes of love. Eloquent, tender, and
heart-wrenching, K. L. Cook's unforgettable debut novel
marks the arrival of a significant new voice in American
fiction.
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