Paper Moon aka Addie Pray Author:Joe David Brown The heroine is Addie Pray, an eleven-year-old orphan ("My mama, Miss Essie Mae Loggins, was the wildest girl in Marengo County, Alabama") of monumental shrewdness, who becomes the willing and imaginative confederate of her conman companion Long Boy ("To this day I don't know whether Long Boy was my daddy or not") in the darkest days of the Depre... more »ssion ("I don't think times were nearly so bad as some people put on....Folks in small places were accustomed to being poor and didn't expect to get rich, like they do now").
Together, they embark on a series of confidence tricks that take them from one end of the South to the other.
PAPER MOON is one of the most engaging pieces of fiction to come down the pike in a long time, as warm, funny, hard-edged and no-nonsense as its remarkable young heroine.« less