Moll Flanders Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2008) Jollin Tan

Jollin Tan

where she discovers secrets both sublime and ominous

Various forms of “opportunity hoarding” among the upper middle class make it harder for others to rise up to the top rung

"Time is passing

Moll Flanders Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2008) Jollin TanMoll Flanders recounts the story of her extraordinary life, from her birth in Newgate prison to her declining years in married prosperity. After being seduced in the home of her adoptive family she lives off her wits and her beauty, as a whore, 'five times a Wife', and a thief, and is eventually transported to Virginia for her crimes. Rich and penitent, Moll reflects on a world that is both good and evil, just as the reader both abhors and admires