With a sureness of narrative control and a maturity of vision, Lamott underplays the drama here by maintaining a leisurely pace with numerous scenes of domestic minutiae. Thus, he is the only one who knows Rosie's most dreadful secret: that she has become a compulsive cheater on the tennis court. Suddenly, the only constant person in Rosie's life is Luther, a menacing drifter who follows her from tournament to tournament. Her tensions mount when Simone is seduced and becomes pregnant, with Rosie her sole confidante.
Skinny, undeveloped Rosie has the familiar self-conscious adolescent insecurities and yearnings to be part of the in-crowd. Remote and neurotic Elizabeth, takes to her bed in depression Jack is absorbed in his new book Charles Adderly is dying. But wrapped up in their own problems, the adults in her life unwittingly fail Rosie at a critical time in her adolescence. and a warm extended family of friends-Rae and Lank and the elderly Adderlys-cherish Rosie. Her mother, Elizabeth, who loves Rosie fiercely but who often can't cope, has married writer James. Rosie Ferguson is now 13 and a rising star in the teenage tennis circuit, playing doubles with her best friend, Simone. In revisiting the characters and idyllic Northern California setting of that book, Lamott again demonstrates her irrepressible, edgy humor and a new, deeper understanding of psychological nuance. Before she won deserved acclaim for her two recent nonfiction books, Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, Lamott wrote Rosie, an enchanting novel whose eponymous protagonist is a nine-year-old girl whose father dies suddenly and whose mother becomes an alcoholic.
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