Sister Golden Hair, Darcey Steinke
Sister Golden Hair, Darcey Steinke
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Sister Golden Hair

Author: Darcey Steinke

Narrator: Luci Christian

Unabridged: 8 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/18/2014

Categories: Fiction, Coming Of Age

Synopsis

When Jesse's family moves to Roanoke, Virginia, in the summer of 1972, she's 12 years old and already mindful of the schism between innocence and femininity, the gap between childhood and the adult world. Her father, a former pastor, cycles through spiritual disciplines as quickly as he cycles through jobs. Her mother is dissatisfied, glumly fetishizing the Kennedys. In the midst of it all, Jesse finds space to set up her room with her secret treasures: busts of Emily Dickinson and Shakespeare, a Venus flytrap, her Cher 45s, and The Big Book of Burial Rites, which she reads obsessively. But outside awaits all the misleading sexual mores, muddled social customs, and confused spirituality.

About Darcey Steinke

Darcey Steinke is the author of the memoir Easter Everywhere and the novels Milk, Jesus Saves, Suicide Blonde, Up Through the Water, and Sister Golden Hair. With Rick Moody, she edited Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited. Her books have been translated into ten languages, and her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Review, Vogue, Spin, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and The Guardian. She has been both a Henry Hoyns Fellow and a Stegner Fellow as well as a writer in residence at the University of Mississippi, and has taught at the Columbia University School of the Arts, Barnard, the American University of Paris, and Princeton.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jill on August 06, 2014

Sister Golden Hair is a coming-of-age book. Nothing new there; coming-of-age books, including Catcher in the Rye, To Kill A Mockingbird, Skippy Dies, She’s Come Undone, This Boy’s Life, A Prayer for Owen Meany and so on – have long been staples of American and world literature. In fact, there are so......more

Goodreads review by Mary on July 19, 2014

I was a young teen in 1972, just a little older than the narrator, Jesse, in Darcey Steinke’s new novel, “Sister Golden Hair”. Is this historical fiction? You be the judge, but for me it was a wonderful evocation of memories from that era: • Hitchhiking Hippies! • The controversy over the war in Vietn......more

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