The Needle's Eye: Passing Through Youth

The Needle's Eye: Passing Through Youth takes the side of the young - boys and girls, doomed and saved - as they weave their ways through ancient and modern times. The Boston Marathon bombers, Francis and Clare of Assisi, legendary nymphs, and urban nomads occupy this sequence of essays, poems, and tales, their stories and chronologies shifting and overlapping. The Needle's Eye affirms Fanny Howe as a literary artist of profound moral intelligence.