Freaky Green Eyes
By Joyce Carol Oates
(HarperTeen, Paperback, 9780064473484, 368pp.)
Publication Date: March 2005
Other Editions of This Title: Library Binding, Prebound
Categories: Family - General, Social Issues - Domestic Violence, Social Issues - Physical & Emotional Abuse
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"Later, I would think of it as crossing over. From a known territory into an unknown. From a place where people know you to a place where people only think they know you."
Sometimes Franky Pierson has a hard time dealing with life. Like when her parents separate and her mother vanishes, Franky wants to believe that her mom has simply pulled a disappearing act. Yet deep within herself, a secret part of her she calls Freaky Green Eyes knows that something is terribly wrong. And only Freaky can open Franky's eyes to the truth.
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. In 2003 she received the Commonwealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature, and in 2006 she received the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award.
“Observant family history and a developing mystery.”
-Chicago Tribune
“Among this year’s most compelling fiction”
-Boston Herald
“Oates builds the mounting tension masterfully, crafting a fast-paced narrative that will haunt readers long after the final page.”
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A fast-paced, first-person thriller”
-ALA Booklist
“A suspenseful story…grippingly realistic”
-KLIATT
“Moves along at the breathless pace”
-BookPage
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