Pond JULES she reluctantly accepts her eccentric

she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle's offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above the shop

lets out a lusty wail

and he finds reprieve from their longing in an unexpected relationship that inspires a momentous expedition across the West

she begins to question what it truly means to be family

Pond JULES she reluctantly accepts her eccentricA deceptively slender volume, it captures with utterly mesmerizing virtuosity the interior reality of its unnamed protagonist, a young woman living a singular and mostly solitary existence on the outskirts of a small coastal village. Sidestepping the usual conventions of narrative, it focuses on the details of her daily experiencefrom the best way to eat porridge or bananas to an encounter with cowsrendered sometimes in story length, story like