SOURCE: "The Girl from New Zealand," in The New York Times Book Review, November 21, 1992, pp. 14, 34.

Bevington is an American educator, poet, and critic. In the following review of To the Island, she notes that Frame's book, while part of a trilogy, can stand alone as an autobiographical work.

An Excerpt from the Carpathians

If you walk in mid-afternoon through the streets of Puamahara you might suppose you walk through a neatly kept cemetery where the graves are more spacious than usual, with flowers and vegetable gardens, fences, concrete paths leading to the door of the family mausoleum. The silence, cavelike, may be entered. No sound of cars, trains, planes, radios, people, dogs; and just as you become certain that you walk in a cemetery, the sounds of the living intrude, the dream vanishes, and those whom you thought to be dead appear in the doorways with brooms and...