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216 pp.
| Candlewick |
July, 2007 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-2245-9$16.99
(4)
YA
After a lifetime of moving, Jude thinks that when she and her mother unpack in her mother's hometown, they'll finally be home. However, the situation isn't what she'd hoped for. Jude, an artist, links her disappointment to painter Van Gogh's troubled life, which becomes the book's central but weakest theme. The story is most moving when describing Jude's troubled relationship with her mother.