In fact, she has written a coming-of-age story: an involving, evocative tale that will have bookish women everywhere shuddering in recognition.
Writer-director Frank Whaley, primarily a busy film and TV actor ("Field of Dreams," "Ray Donovan"), has crafted a tender, evocative tale of an unlikely friendship in his fourth outing behind the camera, "Like Sunday, Like Rain".
In O'Sullivan's evocative tale Flavia sets off northward from her home in the Fens to find out his fate.
Syjuco's evocative tale of modern Manila, spiced with philosophical musings and wry humour, leaps around Philippine culture, history and politics.
"Curious, I began googling their childhoods and further research revealed a series of wonderfully evocative tales about their life in the Deep South.
Frank McCourt, whose evocative tales of a poverty-stricken Irish childhood enthralled readers around the world and sparked the genre of "misery lit", has died of cancer in a Manhattan hospice aged 78.
These are evocative tales, but the sketches of high-society types are sometimes breathless and thin.
The collaborators Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz have taken advantage of this foolproof form to tell evocative tales of lonesome travelers in frozen wildernesses.
An unusual number of their ghosts are women who left this world too soon, unsatisfied and uncelebrated, and, as you watch "Ugetsu" or "Kwaidan" (or read Hearn's evocative tales), you might begin to suspect that the function of the ghost narrative in Japanese culture is precisely to honor the suffering of generations of the country's women.
The result, an evocative post-apocalyptic tale that emphasizes feelings of isolation rather than bloodshed, won an audience award at the Toronto International Film Festival in the fall and has garnered unlikely comparisons to the work of the director Terrence Malick.
