What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew is one of Henry James’s most daring and emotionally subtle novels, told through the eyes of a child caught between two selfish adults. Maisie Farange is passed back and forth between her divorced parents, each more interested in hurting the other than in caring for their daughter. As the adults around her manipulate, deceive, and abandon one another, Maisie gradually begins to understand the world she inhabits.