OLYMPIA VERNON'S CHILDREN OF OPINION

Olympia Vernon writes fiction that embodies moments of testimony and opinion. She makes central to her three novels, Eden (2003), Logic (2004), and A Killing in This Town (2006), an articulate narratology dependent upon the voicing of individual subjectivity, even when that subjectivity is in process and incompletely comprehended. She is a visionary in accessing the realm of girls navigating the passage into awareness of the ways of adults with their own voices still intact but struggling with expression and audibility. Davis discusses Vernon's books and describes the writer as her own distinct child of opinion, unique in her compelling mode of creative telling.