With her mother in prison for killing her father, seventeen-year-old Jane seeks to escape her past and find self-reliance breeding rabbits on their Arkansas homestead.
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When 17-year-old Jane Cahill leaves her uncle's house and moves to the Arkansas land she inherited from her parents, she believes that "the bad part of her life is over now," and she is right. Her harrowing childhood behind her, this is the story of Jane's first year alone in the run-down dwelling, which has no plumbing, heat or light, and of her passage toward self-acceptance. It is an honest, thoughtful work, imbued with wisdom about the dependencies of men as well as those of women. With faith in herself and with the help of new friends, Jane embarks on a largely self-sufficient way of lifebreeding rabbits, raising food and making peace with tragic events in her family's past. A compelling story, with a heroine who is remarkably free of angst.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Shared my table in airport with gal who turned out to be Lynn Hall, author of youth books. I'd not read youth in years but started hers as soon as I returned home. The Solitary was the first of her many books I've read and I wish every teemager could read this one. So very interesting how a young girl finds herself on her own trying to survive in an old house in the country, finding ways to earn money to live, learning to "read" people to make decisions as she tries to protect herself. A real can't-put-it-down book!
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