New York: Atheneum, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning poet's first novel, set during World War II, this is a story of a young woman's battle to cope with her mother - "half drunk, outrageous, but still full of dreams." Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Dust jacket praise from Ursula Le Guin who called it "very painful, very funny and full of love." 278 pp. ISBN: 0-689114427.