The Globe by Cloudfic
Discover books, writers and the worlds behind the stories.
Cloudfic Back to The Globe
Girl in landscape by Jonathan Lethem

Featured Life on other planets

Girl in landscape

by Jonathan Lethem

The heroine is fourteen-year-old Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just as her family flees a postapocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet.

Life on other planets Fiction Sexual behavior Girls
Author Jonathan Lethem
Published 1999
Format Book

Your reading world on The Globe

Discover your next book. Keep the ones that matter.

Join The Globe for a free reader profile and discover books, writers and stories in one place.

Claim your free reader profile

About Girl in landscape

The heroine is fourteen-year-old Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just as her family flees a postapocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Hating her ineffectual father, and troubled by a powerful attraction to the virile but dangerous loner who holds sway over the little colony, Pella sets out on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences for the humans in the community, as well as the odd and exotic natives. Girl in Landscape is a daring exploration of the violent nature of sexual awakening, a meditation on language and perception, and a homage to the great American tradition of the western.

Discuss this book

Reader discussion will appear here once The Globe community opens book conversations.

Are you the author or publisher?

Claim this page to verify the book information, add an author profile, update purchase links or request removal.