Joyce Maynard: The Cloud Chamber.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)

The Horn Book Magazine | September 1, 2005| | Copyright

Joyce Maynard The Cloud Chamber 274 pp. Schwartz/Atheneum 6/05 ISBN 0-689-87152-X $16.95 g (Middle School)

Maynard's novel opens with the stark tableau of fourteen-year-old Nate and his six-year-old sister Junie getting off the school bus to find police escorting their bleeding father into an ambulance after apparently shooting himself in the head. In the aftermath, Nate's mother retreats into herself, while the rest of their 1960s rural Montana community avoids the family as if their troubles were contagious. Yet despite the bleakness, Maynard's prose has a ...

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