Mitchell has happy memories of rock climbing as a teenager in a boulder-filled public park in Gloucester called Red Rocks. But when Sam’s father, Mitchell, a magician, juggler, occasional palm reader and poet, arrives to pick Sam up and sees her hovering in the doorway, he seems impressed: “‘Hey, monkey,’ her dad says.
To get away from Noah, who thinks his name may really be “No,” Sam climbs the walls - or actually the doorjambs - inch by tenuous inch.Ĭourtney, a crushingly good-hearted and hardworking 26-year-old with children by two men, both unreliable, tells Sam the habit is getting old. Her title character is 7 at the start of the book, living in Beverly, Mass., with her mother, Courtney, a hairdresser, and her brother, Noah, who is 2. In her latest novel, “Sam,” Allegra Goodman delivers a portrait of a girl at risk that shimmers with an unusual intimacy and depth.
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