OLDER FICTION
Easton, Kelly

The Life History of a Star

(3) YA Caustic journal entries, dated from April 1973 to August 1974, record Kristin's observations on family, school, and friends, while increasingly referring to her "ghost" of a brother, who came home from Vietnam physically and mentally damaged. Kristin can be funny and cruel--often simultaneously--but the real pull is witnessing how she works to make sense of the tragedy that "broke [her] family into a million little pieces."

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