The novel's daring lies in Miller's use of two women at the center of the narrative: Catherine Hubbard, twice divorced mother of three, the first-person voice of life in the present, and her grandmother, Georgia Rice Holbrooke, the voice of a past time who, after Catherine's discovery of the dead woman's journals, becomes a living presence in her granddaughter's imagination.
This ambitious novel spans seven generations but centers on two women: a modern, twice-divorced mother of three, and her grandmother, who becomes, through her journals, a living presence in her granddaughter's imagination, imparting a pastoral impulse toward a simpler time.
I hope she does come to pick it up, and I hope the daughters and granddaughters my imagination has given her get to wear it someday.
Though she prefers to draw from her imagination or photographs, she asked two of her granddaughters to sit for two of the new works, "Paulina," a mahogany sculpture of a pensive seated woman, and "Naima," a gleaming black marble portrait head.
No wonder, then, that the kindergarten teacher of one granddaughter informed the child's mother that her daughter had a wild imagination.
Ms. Parnas (a granddaughter of the famed cellist Leslie Parnas) brought velvety sound, articulate passagework and keen imagination to her performance, abetted all the way by Mr. Laredo and his players.
To kindle the imaginations of his 5-year-old grandson and 4-year-old granddaughter, Massachusetts contractor Jay Hewitt decided to test his skills at a whole new level: the treetops.
Dahl's granddaughter, Sophie, said the family wanted to share the writer's "palpable magic and limitless imagination" with visitors.
"Why?" her granddaughter asked.
I watch my granddaughter with this anatomically incorrect doll, and she has it talking, moving furniture, being a mother, singing songs, fixing a car and using its imagination.
"That's my granddaughter.
