The Evolution of Jane
3 journalers for this copy...
It's been a while since I read this but wanted to register it anyway...as part of the BC Convention/Anniversary challenge 2004.
It's one of those stories that pieces come back to you over time- I really enjoyed the trip to the Galapagos with Jane and what I learned about the islands.
From the Publisher
Jane Barlow Schwartz is obsessed with one question: why did her best friend Martha stop being her best friend? The two girls, distant cousins, had shared idyllic childhood summers in the New England seaside town of Barlow, named for their family's founding fathers. Martha was not just Jane's friend but her idol, her soul mate, her confidante. Then, somewhere along the line, the friendship ended. What went wrong? Was it the family feud, which their parents spoke of only in hushed tones? Did Jane do something unforgivable? When the cousins are reunited unexpectedly on a tour of the Galapagos, they meet Darwin head on. Jane traces back through her Yankee-Cuban-Jewish ancestry to try to pinpoint the 'splitting event,' the moment when Martha was no longer the Martha she knew. In the process, she ponders the origin of species and the origin of friendship, the instincts of exotic wildlife and of her eccentric shipmates, the evolution of nature and of her life.
It's one of those stories that pieces come back to you over time- I really enjoyed the trip to the Galapagos with Jane and what I learned about the islands.
From the Publisher
Jane Barlow Schwartz is obsessed with one question: why did her best friend Martha stop being her best friend? The two girls, distant cousins, had shared idyllic childhood summers in the New England seaside town of Barlow, named for their family's founding fathers. Martha was not just Jane's friend but her idol, her soul mate, her confidante. Then, somewhere along the line, the friendship ended. What went wrong? Was it the family feud, which their parents spoke of only in hushed tones? Did Jane do something unforgivable? When the cousins are reunited unexpectedly on a tour of the Galapagos, they meet Darwin head on. Jane traces back through her Yankee-Cuban-Jewish ancestry to try to pinpoint the 'splitting event,' the moment when Martha was no longer the Martha she knew. In the process, she ponders the origin of species and the origin of friendship, the instincts of exotic wildlife and of her eccentric shipmates, the evolution of nature and of her life.
good read,well ritten,well thought out plot alternating the present life and childhood of two cousins.
childhood in a coastal New England town and present in the Galapagos.
And back to me, now.
Avaliable for loan
Avaliable for loan
Journal Entry 4 by 
bookczuk
at Rutledge Cab Co in Charleston, South Carolina USA on Friday, April 28, 2017
bookczuk at Rutledge Cab Co in Charleston, South Carolina USA on Friday, April 28, 2017
Released 6 yrs ago (4/27/2017 UTC) at Rutledge Cab Co in Charleston, South Carolina USA
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I picked this up while visiting friends in Charleston.
