num_pages: 224
description: In the summer of 1926 sixteen-year-old Garnet Richardson is sent to a lake resort to escape the polio epidemic in the city. She dreams of indulging her passion for ornithology and visiting the famous new amusement park--a summer of fun before she returns for her final year of high school after which shes expected to marry a nice boy and settle into middle-class homemaking. But in the country Garnet finds herself under the supervision of equally oppressive guardians--her fathers wealthy cousin and the matrons stuck-up daughter. Only a liberating job in a hat shop an intense secret relationship with a daring and beautiful flapper and a deep faith in her own fierce heart can save her from the suffocating boredom of traditional femininity.Silhouette of a Sparrow is a coming-of-age story about a search for wildness in a confining time and a simultaneous quest for security in an era full of unrest. It is the tale of a young womans discovery of the science of risk and the art of rebellion and of course the power of unexpected love.
language: English
title: Silhouette of a Sparrow
publisher: Milkweed Editions