Poor Deer
About This Book
Margaret Murphy is a girl who weaves fantastic tales, and she is growing up in a world where the truth is more than she can bear. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died. No one blames Margaret, at least not outright, and her mother tells anyone who will listen that her daughter never left the house that day. Left alone to make sense of what happened, Margaret makes herself forget the unbearable memories and replaces them with imagined stories full of faith and magic, all of which end happily. Then a strange and formidable creature called Poor Deer makes her way, uninvited, into those stories. She will not rest until Margaret faces the truth about her past and atones for her part in Agnes's death. The novel is a tender and imaginative look at how we come to understand the children we once were, and at the stories we tell ourselves to get through life's hardest moments. The source credits it with the Kafka Prize for Fiction and describes the author as a PEN/Faulkner Award nominee.
ISBN: 9780063327689
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