(2010-09-06):
This book has beautiful writing, prose that I have highlighted to remember forever. It is extremely long, though, when the narrator, Evie, is a...
(2010-08-27):
Anthropology of an American Girl is a novel of staggering proportions. It clocks in at over 600 pages. The story follows Eveline from the defining...
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It is through this department that in her senior year, she meets Harrison Rourke, an older man (I guessed he is ten years older than her) who is trying to make his way into the professional boxing circuit. Anthropology essentially traces Evie’s story from her teenage years on to her growth into a young woman. Also, orphaned Kate moves in with Evie and her single mom so Kate can finish her senior year before joining her brother and his family in Canada. Precisely because the story unfolds slowly and over a period of time you can see the many ways in which Evie matures and the beauty of it registers slowly. Evie herself is an artist and spends time in her studio creating works of art and props for the drama department. Rourke is filling in for the drama coach for a term and he makes a lingering impression on Evie. For the most part Evie spends her time hanging around with boyfriend Jack, a musician. Rourke moves on to whatever he does and Evie is left completely shattered....
By Hilary Thayer Hamann "Anthropology of an American Girl" is, among other things, a stern rebuke to chick lit everywhere.