With an unforgettable cast of characters, including the increasingly distant and distracted Stella Loretta, the family's black maid and Wally's second mother Ham, Loretta's son, who shares Wally's enthusiasm for ants and exploration Rudy, Wally's father, a naval officer, away serving in the Pacific and Mr. But Wally also finds hope and strength in the unlikeliest places. Reeling from her own unexpected wartime tragedy and navigating an increasingly fraught landscape, Wally is forced to confront painful truths about the world - its sorrows, its prejudices, its conflicts, its limitations. Her love of Wonder Woman comics and ants makes her feel like a misfit - especially in the shadow of her dazzling but unstable mother, Stella.Īcclaimed author Elizabeth Gaffney's irresistible novel captures postwar Brooklyn through Wally's eyes, opening on V-J day, as she grows up with the rest of America. Living in her grandparents' Brooklyn Heights brownstone, she doesn't like dresses, needlepoint, or manners.
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