This is just plain fun! The author draws on a huge collection of ephemera - hers and her friends - to create Frankie's scrapbook. We follow this plucky flapper from her high school graduation to Vassar, Greenwich Village, Paris and finally back home again to New Hampshire. With limited text (cleverly done in old typewriter font) the story carries us along, keeping up the intrigue until the last few pages. If you're a scrapbook fan, a lover of ephemera, a devotee of the 1920's or just enjoy a rousing tale of young womanhood - settle down with The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt, you'll have a blast.
Hi Erin, I also thoroughly enjoyed this find on my library's shelf! It was really surprising and fun to find a scrapbook novel.
ReplyDeleteLeslie - You might also enjoy "Journal - The Short Life and Mysterious Death of Amy Zoe Mason" by Kristine Atkinson published in 2006. It also uses lots of ephemera,is designed to look like an old journal and even includes a mystery. I think books like this are fun and inspire some new directions for our own journals and altered books.
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