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1) Nicotine
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Recent business school graduate Penny Baker has rebelled against her family her whole life -- by being the conventional one. Her mother, Amalia, was a member of an Amazonian tribe called the Kogi; her much older father, Norm, long ago attained cult-like deity status among a certain group of aging hippies while operating a 'healing center' in New Jersey. And she's never felt particularly close to her much-older half-brothers from Norm's previous marriage...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The two are mismatched from the start — she’s a lesbian, he’s gay—but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old...
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