Girl in Landscape

"'Girl in Landscape'...could be called science fiction for those who like that sort of thing, although it shouldn't scare off those who don't....[It explores] both the awe of female adolescent sexual awakening and the treachery of it....Lethem tells Pella's story with the same lucidity and unaffected elegance he brought to his 1997 novel 'As She Climbed Across the Table.' And if he's unflinching about probing the dark side of Pella's transformation, he's also almost painfully sympathetic to her, capturing the awkwardness a young woman feels when she's getting ready to fold up her girl self forever..."Lethem, Jonathan is the author of 'Girl in Landscape', published 1999 under ISBN 9780375703911 and ISBN 0375703918.