The Tiny One

A Novel

Eliza Minot

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Vintage Books
15 January 2001

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

With clarity, sensitivity, and striking authenticity, Eliza Minot adeptly captures the voice of a vibrant, intelligent child swept into a sea of sorrow and confusion in The Tiny One.

Via Mahoney Revere is eight years old when her mother is killed in a car accident. Confused by anguish, bewildered by her mother's absence, and mystified by the notion of death itself, Via retells the day of her mother's death in minute detail, trying to discern the crack in the world through which her mother must have slipped. She takes us through the seemingly ordinary moments of her day, from a cold-cereal breakfast to math class, when she is called to the principal's office to hear the news. Every small event of the tragic day calls up earlier memories from Via's young life, resulting in a beautifully patterned portrait of a comfortable childhood guarded by a warm and loving mother. Via attempts to grasp ""how something so big could fit into such a little thing as a day.""

By: Eliza Minot
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 214g
ISBN: 9780375706332
ISBN 10: 037570633X
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 15 January 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eliza Minot lives in New York City.

Reviews for The Tiny One: A Novel

""A remarkable work of recollection and imagination."" --The Boston Globe ""A shining poetic evocation of a child's experience of the loss of her mother."" --The New York Times ""[Minot] has a wild, unstrung, lyrical gift."" --The New York Times Book Review ""A sensitive, sensuous first novel . . . a bright-dark rendering of a young girl's great childhood loss, told with quiet power and deep feeling."" --Elle

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