Freaky Green Eyes by Joyce Carol Oates
HarperTempest, September 2, 2003, Teen/Relationships
Franky is a 15 year old telling the events leading up to and surrounding her mother’s disappearance. While her mother would always call her Francesca, and she insists on Franky, she now has a part of herself known inwardly as Freaky green eyes. This part of Franky realizes that something is very wrong in her family as she struggles to understand the truth behind her parents’ relationship. Teens (and adult readers sneaking in to visit Oates’ YA books) will empathize with the central character as a believable narrator coping with serious family drama.
Fortunately for most young adult readers, they are probably too young to compare Franky’s former-football-star father and missing mother with the O.J. Simpson case, which becomes an inevitable and somewhat disconcerting parallel.
Amanda Stone
SC State Library
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