num_pages: 287
description: The beguiling fourteen-year-old narrator of IN ZANESVILLE is a late bloomer. She is used to flying under the radar-a sidekick a third wheel a marching band dropout a disastrous babysitter the kind of girl whose Eureka moment is the discovery that fudge can't be said with an English accent.Luckily she has a best friend a similarly undiscovered girl with whom she shares the everyday adventures of a 1970s American girlhood incidents through which a world is revealed and character is forged.In time their friendship is tested-- by their families' claims on them by a clique of popular girls who stumble upon them as if they were found objects and by the first startling subversive intimations of womanhood.With dry wit and piercing observation Jo Ann Beard shows us that in the seemingly quiet streets of America's innumerable Zanesvilles is a world of wonders and that within the souls of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something radiant and unforgettable.
language: English
title: In Zanesville
publisher: Little, Brown and Company