How All This Started

The striking debut novel from award-winning writer Pete Fromm

Abilene and Austin, a sister and brother frustrated with the small-town Texas life their parents have chosen, turn to each other to escape the story they're all too tired of hearing: their father's unvarying account of "How All This Started"-how he met their mother then settled down in the middle of nowhere.

Pinning her dreams on her younger brother, Abilene becomes dead-set on making Austin a pitching star, a "fireballer" like Nolan Ryan. Swept up in her irresistible exuberance, they try, with baseball and firearms, to combat the stagnation of the Texas landscape--so fiercely it's uncertain whether either of them will survive Abilene's manic dreams.

Introducing one of the most memorable female characters in contemporary literature, How All This Started portrays with strength and subtlety the visceral bond between a brother and sister.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 10/01/2001
ISBN: 9780312276973
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.64w x 0.74d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 58252 / How All This Started
Reading Level: 4.6 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 12