Tokens of Grace: A Novel in Stories - Softcover

O'Connor, Sheila

4.35

20 ratings by Goodreads

9780915943470: Tokens of Grace: A Novel in Stories

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0915943476 ISBN 13: 9780915943470

Publisher: Milkweed Editions, 1990

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

In a lyrical mixture of beauty and pain, Sheila O'Connor explores the mysteries and contradictions of childhood against the background of divorce and family relocation. Readers will care a great deal about this family--especially about Callie, the oldest daughter, though whose eyes we see much of what takes place. Sheila O'Connor unfolds the story in brief, intense chapters, with an unsparing eye for emotional truth.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Sheila O'Connor is the author of Sparrow Road, Where No Gods Came and Tokens of Grace. Where No Gods Came won the Minnesota Book Award, the Michigan Award for Literary Fiction, and was selected as a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers title. Her work has been recognized with fellowships from the Bush Foundation, Loft McKnight and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She teaches fiction in the MFA program at Hamline University where she also serves as editor of Water~Stone Review. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop.

Review:

Tokens of Grace "accomplishes something extraordinary; it looks without blinking and speaks without pretension."   --New York Times

"Tokens of Grace strings together more than 40 splendid vignettes.... And because we care so much about the characters, we come away wondering what became of them in later years."
--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"A sensitive portrait of change, readjustment, and growth."
--ALA Booklist

O'Connor captures both the toughness and fragility of memory in this many-faceted exploration of one young girl's coming of age.
--Hurricane Alice

"Tokens of Grace carries a big sweet cry that lingers."
--Minnesota Daily

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.