Journey [A Novel by the author of Sarah, Plain and Tall] by MacLachlan, Patricia - 1991

New York: Delacorte Press, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. An about Fine copy of the first edition, first printing in a Very Good + dust jacket with general edgewear; Maclachlan's tale of a young boy whose mother, in his eleventh year, leaves him and his sister at his grandparents and there abandons them without telling the children why -- causing the young boy to wonder if he is the reason she left. Of the book, Publisher's Weekly stated: "Like Sarah, Plain and Tall, for which MacLachlan won the 1986 Newbery Award, this novel concerns a family trying to fill the gaping void left by the loss of a mother. And like that earlier masterpiece, this is a spellbinding tale, lean only in its length." A nice copy of this short but penetrating work.