Dec 10, 2009

Other Voices, Other Rooms | Characters

As the novel begins, Joel Harrison Knox, the twelve-year-old protagonist, is trying to make his way to Skully's Landing and to his father. In New Orleans Joel considered himself an outsider, especially after the death of his mother, but he soon discovers that he is also isolated at Skully's Landing. Intimidated by his stepmother and disillusioned by his father's weakness, he tries unsuccessfully to communicate with the aunt he has left behind and later to run away with his friend Idabel. In the course of the novel, Joel tries out a number of relationships, most of them with people he...