The Girl Who Went and Saw and Came Back
From the publisher: A suspenseful and unsettling story of friendship and loss, travel and transformation, a deepening awareness of evil, and the fine line between spiritual awakening and madness, The Girl Who Went and Saw and Came Back is a novel for readers who want to think and feel, ask disturbing questions, and confront uncertain answers. Charlie searches desperately for her lost girlhood friend, Mignon, an abused, troubled, and mysterious figure she repeatedly finds and loses in the course of a lifetime. But is the woman she rediscovers the same person she knew and loved as a child? Can Charlie save Mignon, and at what cost? Voyaging to the edge of unknown dimensions, can Charlie herself ever return? The Girl Who Went and Saw and Came Back challenges the reader to explore the mysteries of identity and of inner experiences that try the boundaries of language.
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“To read Kim Chernin’s latest masterpiece is to move out on the wings of an intelligence that touches the spirit.”
- Margaret Randall
writer, photographer, teacher“A rare depth of psychological understanding, and one of the most engaging central characters in modern fiction. This brilliantly rendered novel stands out as Chernin’s finest, the work of a writer who is master of her craft.”
- Lillian B. Rubin
author of Tangled Lives: Daughters, Mothers &
the Crucible of Aging
Publisher: EdgeWork Books, Berkeley, CA, 2002.