num_pages: 380
description: Longing to escape the rundown commune where she lives with her organic-farmer mother, assorted half-siblings, and a cow named Marilyn, the precociously well-read Saskia White, twelve, imagines herself as the noble contemporary of Odysseys, Marco Polo, and Horatio Hornblower. Saskia's elaborate fantasies are soon upstaged by her real-life, long-lost father, who leads Saskia and her best friend Jane on a camping trip that turns into an epic adventure of love, sex, and lies.Saskia is as unforgettable as her own heroes, a young girl whose story resonates with a rare and joyous sense of life and discovery.
language: English
title: The Saskiad: A Novel
titlecomplete: The Saskiad: A Novel
genres: Fantasy, Coming Of Age, The United States Of America, Young Adult, Novels, Family, Literature, Contemporary, Unfinished, Fiction
ratings_count: 522
publisher: Picador