A Garden of Earthly Delights — Joyce Carol Oates

In this stirringly powerful novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of Clara, the golden child of a migrant worker, whose fragile and haunting beauty plunges her too swiftly into womanhood. With superb dramatic irony the novel captures the terrible innocence of natural evil... of lust and ruined love... and the sweet, deadly perfume of a stillborn dream.