As one summer gives way to the next, the voyeuristic and at times surreal story, narrated by the younger sister, builds in portent and power as the sisters' sexuality surfaces and their parents' marriage strains toward its inevitable end. But adolescent fantasies and terrors come together when their semi-innocent games are encroached upon by the real world.

Among the bushes and brambles, it offers places to hide from the rages of their war-scarred father, places that also become secret gardens of the imagination. Works Hula W W Norton, 1994, ISBN 9780393035896 References 'W.W. Told over the course of two hot Virginia summers, Hula presents a childs-eye view of a family drama played out to a chilling clima Among the bushes and brambles, it offers places to hide from the rages of their war-scarred father, places that also become secret gardens of the imagination. Rating details 391 ratings 59 reviews For two young girls in the 1960s, the family backyard is both playground and prison.

1 She was the recipient of a 1993 Whiting Award. Through the hot days of two long summers, the play of the two girls, who are both the closest of allies and the worst of enemies, mirrors the violence of a war-haunted father and the passivity of their emotionally absent mother. Lisa Shea is an American novelist and the author of books published by W.W. For two pre-adolescent sisters isolated by their parents' neglect and driven to create their own secret garden of the imagination, their backyard is their universe. The recipient of praise rarely showered upon a first novel, Hula is haunting, seductive, and reminiscent of Susan Minot's Monkeys or Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides. The hardcover publication of Hula brought author Lisa Shea a Whiting Writers Award, put her in the company of other Whiting winners such as Tobias Wolff, Alice McDermoft, and Mona Simpson, and made her book a #1 regional best-seller. What a finely tuned and frighteningly real version of an American childhoodKaye Gibbons For two young girls in the 1960s, the family backyard is both playground. Lisa Shea's award-winning first novel immediately established her as an all-important American talent and made her a #1 regional best-selling author. Buy a cheap copy of Hula: A Novel book by Lisa Shea.

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