Owls Do Cry: A Novel

A landmark of modernist fiction, Owls Do Cry traces one family's unraveling in post-war New Zealand after their daughter is institutionalized

First published in New Zealand in 1957, Owls Do Cry, was Janet Frame's second book and the first of her thirteen novels. Now approaching its 60th anniversary, it is securely a landmark in Frame's catalog and indeed a landmark of modernist literature. The novel spans twenty years in the Withers family, tracing Daphne's coming of age into a post–war New ...