Set in Salt Lake City at the height of the Great Depression, Linda Sillitoe's last novel opens with three little girls, eleven-year-old triplets, skipping in front of their house at 1300 South, across from Liberty Park. They giggle lightly as they chant: Prin-cess Al-ice in Liberty Park
Munch-es ba-nan-as 'til way after dark. Princess Alice is an elephant the children of Utah purchased by donating nickels and dimes to a circus. The...