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Name: Girl in landscape
Author: Jonathan Lethem

Pella Marsh, a fourteen‑year‑old orphan, survives the collapse of Brooklyn and joins her father’s expedition to a newly discovered planet. In the frontier colony, she grapples with her distaste for her ineffectual father and her growing attraction to the colony’s powerful loner. As Pella’s sexual awakening intensifies, she discovers the limits of human endurance and the dangers posed by the planet’s exotic natives. The narrative explores the violent nature of desire, the power of language, and the ethos of the American frontier.

First publish date: 1998

Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera

Authors: Jonathan Lethem

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