Edward Tick

FBI Girl

History & Biography

“FBI Girl, written with “a touch of the poet,” surprises and delights on every page. It vividly recreates recent American history as experienced through the eyes of a precious and gifted girl growing up in a family challenged by a father’s difficult work and personality, a child’s disability, a murder, puberty, religion and government service. This book is memoir, fitting into the sub-genre of children surviving traumatic childhoods. But it can stand along the finest coming of age novels; the narrator and her awakening remind me of the wonderful characters of Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird and Franny in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I really like this kid and her beautiful book.”