Fanny and Sue
Karen Stolz (Reviewed by The Editor - Rebecca Brown)
2003 Hyperion
ISBN: 0786867019
Identical twin girls take turns narrating their teenage years in St. Louis during The Depression.
Their world is full of movie houses & soda fountains, radio shows & scarlet fever, school plays & dreams of stardom as these two girls-becoming-women remember the days of their lives. Then relatives, on their way to California, come stay for a while & life changes all over again.
Fanny and Sue is a charming read which kind of goes nowhere, discovers nothing & has few ahha! moments, however, in these troubled times its very nostalgia, violence-free language & starry-eyed remembrances are soothing like a pot of chamomile tea--sweet & tasty & relaxing.
& then one twin gets the chance to follow her star & Hollywood here come Fanny & Sue!
A finely detailed portrait of girlhood in America's heartland during the Great Depression. Lots of everyday minutiae, of a time long ago in a simpler world.
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