Borrowed Finery. A Memoir.

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 210, [6 (blank)]. Pictorial wraps.

A 2001 New York Times Book of the Year. Nominated for the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award. Born to nomadic and bohemian parents who rarely had time for her, Fox presents a portrait of her peripatetic childhood, detailing her many homes, from an orphanage in Manhattan to a sugar plantation in Cuba. By the Newbury award-winning children's book author.

"Pointillist in detail, lapidary in method and brutal in effect, Borrowed Finery is an eloquent, disturbing memoir – and the perfect bookend to the author's powerful novels." –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times