The Saskiad: A Novel
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ISBN: 031218171X / Publisher: Picador, January 1998
As she grows up in a commune in rural New York, twelve-year-old Saskia invents an imaginary world to escape her humdrum surroundings, but a mysterious invitation from her father soon attracts her attention
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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.
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