Jerusha Abbott writes to the anonymous trustee paying for her college education, and since he never replies, the whole novel arrives as her letters. Jean Webster made a one-sided correspondence carry a complete story.
The letters run through classes, roommates, holidays, money worries and the slow discovery of what an orphaned girl can want for herself, with sketches and asides that keep the voice lively. The epistolary form gives the book its charm and its pace: the reader learns things only when Judy decides to mention them, and the gaps do as much work as the text. Fingerprint Publishing issues this edition.
Details that matter:
• An epistolary novel told entirely through one correspondent's letters
• A coming-of-age story following a college education from start to finish
• Humour and self-portraiture in the narrator's own voice
• Published in this edition by Fingerprint Publishing
For readers of classic fiction, young adults and anyone who enjoys novels written in letters, available through Boipoka.
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