The Geography of Girlhood
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The Geography of Girlhood is a coming of age novel verse novel
by Kirsten Smith, screenwriter and film-maker. Published by Little Brown in 2006, the novel chronicles Penny Morrow, fourteen-year old with a missing mother, a wild older sister, a protective younger stepbrother and one severe crush on absolutely the wrong guy.
To make matters worse, Penny’s trapped in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, where "nothing ever happens / and if it does / all the things with wings / fly away."
Verse novel
A verse novel is a type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry rather than prose. Either simple or complex stanzaic verse-forms may be used, but there will usually be a large cast, multiple voices, dialogue, narration, description, and action in a...
by Kirsten Smith, screenwriter and film-maker. Published by Little Brown in 2006, the novel chronicles Penny Morrow, fourteen-year old with a missing mother, a wild older sister, a protective younger stepbrother and one severe crush on absolutely the wrong guy.
To make matters worse, Penny’s trapped in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, where "nothing ever happens / and if it does / all the things with wings / fly away."