House on R. Street

A teen girl dominates her dysfunctional family and escapes her home life through cinema visits and a sexual awakening in this psychological novel. In 1920s South Africa, Bill is the wild child of her family. Coddled by her mother, feared by her sisters, she does as she pleases. Skipping school to see the same movie time and again, enticing lonely men with her budding sexuality, Bill fulfills her r...