![]() ![]() Readers soon discover that her teacher considers Mattie to be a gifted writer and, at the woman's urging, Mattie applies to Barnard College and receives a full scholarship. ![]() Each begins with her "word of the day," which firmly establishes Mattie's love of language and which ties in with the unfolding events. As the mystery behind Grace's death unfolds, flashback chapters fill in details of Mattie's life on her family's farm. Earlier that day, Grace had given to Mattie a bundle of letters to burn, her correspondence with Gillette. Narrated by 16-year-old Mattie, who works at the Glenmore Hotel on Big Moose Lake, the book begins on Thursday, July 12, 1906, the day a search party discovers the drowned body of Grace Brown, a hotel guest. ![]() Donnelly's ( The Tea Rose) riveting first novel for young adults, like Dreiser's An American Tragedy, was inspired by the Chester Gillette case. ![]()
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