What Jamie Saw
Author: Carolyn Coman
Translator: Mi-seong Yoon
Publisher: Gaeamnamu
136 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
With wrenching simplicity and mesmerizing imagery, Coman articulates
nine-year-old Jamie's baffled, stream-of-consciousness observations of a
violent act that robs him of his security, but not his innocence.
Awakened in the middle of the night by some primal sense of alarm, the
sleep-disoriented boy watches his stepfather reach into his baby
sister's crib and throw her across the room. And then he watches his
mother step into the bedroom doorway and catch her flying baby. Patty
deposits her pajama-clad children into the safety of her rusty old
Buick, collects the bare necessities, and leaves. With the help of her
friend Earl, Jamie's teacher, and even her mother-in-law, Patty finds
her way back to work and into a support group for battered wives. In a
trailer out in the middle of nowhere, she and Jamie tough it out, slowly
reinventing their lives. Revealed through the boy's clear, unprejudiced
eye, characters, though rough and uneducated, are not stereotyped. It is
Jamie who is most delicately and lovingly wrought. His love of magic
tricks, illusion, and sleight of hand sustains him through the bad
times. Shocking in its simple narration and child's-eye view, What Jamie
Saw is a bittersweet miracle in understated language and forthright
hopefulness. --Alice Casey Smith
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