The story is told by a nine-year-old boy, Charlie, who observes with an encompassing awe a pivotal year in the life of his older sister Graceanne. She's loud, intellectual and a ruthless physical and psychological daredevil, a girl whose ferocious exploits are the stuff of local legend and the stuff of all that her brother aspires to be. Charlie narrates Graceanne's painful passage into her teens, a passage made tempestuous by their violent mother.
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The story is told by a nine-year-old boy, Charlie, who observes with an encompassing awe a pivotal year in the life of his older sister Graceanne. She's loud, intellectual and a ruthless physical and psychological daredevil, a girl whose ferocious exploits are the stuff of local legend and the stuff of all that her brother aspires to be. Charlie narrates Graceanne's painful passage into her teens, a passage made tempestuous by their violent mother.
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