(Irini Spanidou's highly praised first novel, God's Snake, introduced a writer of rare perception and a character, Anna Karystinou, with whom readers fell in love.��In Fear, the author returns to Anna as she comes of age.

It is now 1959, and thirteen-year old Anna is a perpetual newcomer, moving from place to place with her family.��Her father, a demanding army colonel, has raised her to be invulnerable and proud.��But Anna's confident air belies her anxiety as she grapples with her burgeoning sexuality, and begins an uneasy friendship with the smug and challenging Veronica Koroneou.��When Anna learns that a serial killer is preying on young women nearby, she is lured toward the sourch of her terror.��From a unique and brutally honest angle, Fear is an unflinching protrait of a girl's difficult transition into womanhood.

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