Monday, February 21, 2011

Freaky Green Eyes / Joyce Carol Oates / 341 pages

Franky Pierson idolizes her father, a former Seattle Seahawks football player and famous announcer.  She suspects that he may be abusing her beautiful mother.  Convinced by her father that her mother is weak, selfish, and uncaring, Franky fails to find sympathy for her until her mother is missing.  Franky finds her mother's hidden journal and fears the worst.  Franky "crosses over" - realizing what her father is and what her mother was not.

Gateway Reader Award 2005-2006

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