Miss Elva | Stephens Gerard Malone

It won't cheer you up

My overall impression of this book can be summed up in one word - ugly. The book is about ugliness - the physical ugliness of one character and the ugly personalities of most everyone else in the book. The story is about Elva, a young girl living in a small town in Nova Scotia in the early 1900's and she is the physically ugly character. She has a harsh mother, a completely distasteful father and a self centred half sister. Elva wants to be like her sister and is, in many ways, the typical … read review