Hula (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Lisa Shea
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Girls, Family or family life, Sex or sexuality, Abused persons, Brothers and sisters, Violence, Death or dying, Imagination, Catholics or Catholic Church, Suburban life
- Locales: Virginia
Lisa Shea’s narrator in HULA offers a compelling glimpse into the survival instincts of children subjected to extreme family dysfunction and the ways they internalize their fears even as they control them. A preadolescent girl whose body is only beginning the transition to adolescence which has engulfed her older sister, she desperately seeks to hold on to the central relationships of her childhood—one with a beloved dog, Mitelin, and the other with her bullying sister—just as the pressures of female sexual maturation are moving them inexorably apart. The adult world around her...
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