Colony Girl: A Novel
In Arhat, Iowa, there are cornfields and there's the Colony.Fifteen-year-old Eve is feeling stymied by both.Boldly, she gets her first job as a highway work crew flagman, falls...
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In Arhat, Iowa, there are cornfields and there's the Colony.Fifteen-year-old Eve is feeling stymied by both.Boldly, she gets her first job as a highway work crew flagman, falls in love with the local teen Adonis and his widowed father, and plots to stop her best friend's arranged marriage.Spiritually precocious, yet imbued with an impassioned desire to know more of life, Eve tries to save the Colony while at the same time struggling to break free of its ominous control. Sharp, witty, and entirely fresh, Colony Girl mixes religion, sex, and the eternal American hunger for freedom.AUTHORBIO: Thomas Rayfiel is the author of SPLIT-LEVELS, which 'never stops entertaining or disturbing' (San Francisco Chronicle).His neo-Edwardian novel LUTWIDGE FINCH is appearing serially in zingmagazine.He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Claire, a potter, and their two children.