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In Spite Fences, Pert Wilson was the loyal friend who helped Maggie Pugh stand up for her beliefs. Now Maggie has moved away from Kinship, Georgia, and 15-year-old Pert is aching for something more than the tiny community she's always known. Her circle of trailer park neighbors and her supportive mother and older brother aren't enough for Pert; she is lonesome for the father she has never met. But when Pert's Daddy suddenly returns to Kinship and sets her neighborhood spinning, Pert is forced to reassess her concepts of home, loyalty, family, and kin.A painful story rich in local flavor and authentic feeling...a thoughtful portrait of an often fractious community, anchored by unexpectedly strong ties of love and responsibility. --Kirkus Reviews, pointer
* Krisher. . . conveys harsh realities within a compelling, often humorous story of love and the true meaning of family.
--Booklist, starred
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 6-10Set in the same Georgia town as Spite Fences (Delacorte, 1994) in 1961, this novel explores family and community relationships through the narrative of Pert Wilson. While her older brother, Jimmy, longs for wheels to ride around town, 15-year-old Pert wants them to escape. The only Roman Catholic family in Kinship, the Wilsons all work a number of jobs and never quite make ends meet. Although Pert loves her supportive mother and helpful trailer-park neighbors, she feel restless and ready for change. When her long-absent father shows up with presents and promises, Pert can't understand how the rest of the family can resist his charms. When the mayor seems determined to zone away the only home the Wilsons can afford, Pert's daddy offers solutions for which her neighbors are willing to hand over their life savings. After Jimmy's fiancée asks her help in aborting her baby, Pert is forced to compromise her beliefs, and tension builds as Pert's father's words and actions don't quite match up. The plot is nicely paced, and both the oddball and the ordinary characters seem real and reasonable. Although Pert always remains the focus of the story, the viewpoint sometimes rotates to one of her neighbors: an emotionally damaged Korean War vet; a retired school marm; and the spell-weaving, book-making (we're not talking binderies here) Weevils. Unmired by circumstance, Pert keeps a positive attitude toward life, lacing her unvarnished views of the town with wonderfully ironic, laugh-out-loud humor even while making heartbreaking discoveries. A rich and remarkable story.Cindy Darling Codell, Clark Middle School, Winchester, KY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
This companion to Spite Fences, said PW, is a "wholly convincing" portrait of a stir-crazy 15-year-old girl living in a Georgia trailer park in the early 1960s. Ages 12-up. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
Pert Wilson, who first appeared in 'Spite Fences', returns in this overlong novel of 1961 Georgia. The gregarious fifteen-year-old is thrilled when her long-absent father reappears, exuding charm that camouflages his larcenous nature. Filled with unnecessary sitcom set-pieces, the first-person narrative is interrupted by chapters containing the observations of her trailer park neighbors, which are self-conscious in tone and read like exercises in monologue-writing. From HORN BOOK 1997, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Returning to the small Georgia town in which she set her memorable debut, Spite Fences (1994), Krisher explores the difference between kin and family in a painful story rich in local flavor and authentic feeling. A proposal to rezone their trailer park for permanent housing has the residents of Happy Trails a-tizzy. Luckily, 15-year-old Perty Wilson's father, James, is on the scene again after years of wandering; he has sheet metal to sell for trailer skirts, and, when that turns out not to be ``permanent'' enough for the zoning commission, claims he can make a deal for a load of cement. Perty believes her father hung the moon, and now that he's back good times have finally come to her family. Then she learns that some of the gifts he's been bringing her were bought by others; he repays her blind devotion by standing her up at the high school's father/daughter dance; the cement money suddenly disappears, along with her mother Rae Jean's emergency fund and, soon after, James himself. Krisher develops an engrossing sense of place with vigorous, evocative language, telling situations, and lively conversation. Using no fewer than ten narrators, and leisurely about laying down background details, the author demands from readers their time and attention, but rewards them with a live-wire protagonist and a thoughtful portrait of an often fractious community, anchored by unexpectedly strong ties of love and responsibility. (Fiction. 12+)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 7^-10. Sixteen-year-old Pert Wilson has lived a trailer-park life of struggle, predictability, and boredom with her mother, older brother, Jim, and Gram, dreaming of the day her glamorous, faceless father will return to rescue them all. When he does arrive in an old bread truck selling metal sheeting, life becomes exciting, unpredictable, and subtly painful. Focused solely on the father she has only imagined and hungry for the attention he pays her after his 16-year absence, Pert refuses to see the signs of a family that is protecting her from the truth of his insensitivity, immaturity, and irresponsibility. In this companion to Spite Fences (1994), Krisher again conveys harsh realities within a compelling, often humorous story of love and the true meaning of family. She paints a poverty-stricken, trailer-park world honestly and without condescension; her characters' dialect rings true. Her insights into the struggle of single parenting and a child's constant longing for the missing parent are poignant and on target as is her illustration of the depth and breadth of family--extended family, real family, kin. --Frances Bradburn