A novel wise in the complexities of adolescence and the human heart. --The Washington Post
Longing to escape the rundown commune outside of Ithaca New York where she lives with her
organic-farmer mother assorted half-siblings and a cow named Marilyn the precociously
well-read Saskia White twelve imagines herself as the noble contemporary of Odysseus Marco
Polo and Horatio Hornblower. But Saskia's elaborate fantasies are soon upstaged by her
real-life long-lost father who leads Saskia and her best friend Jane on a camping trip that
turns into an epic adventure of love sex and lies. Saskia is as unforgettable as her own
heroes a young girl whose story resonates with a rare and joyous sense of life and discovery.
