Nicotine Contributor(s): Zink, Nell (Author) |
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ISBN: 0062497111 ISBN-13: 9780062497116 Publisher: Harper Large Print OUR PRICE: $27.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.00 lbs) 432 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Family |
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Publisher Description: One of Huffington Post's 20 Fall 2016 Books You'll Need for Your Bookshelf Featured in New York Magazine's Fall 2016 Preview An Entertainment Weekly Fall 2016 Must-Read Featured in LitHub's 2016 Bookseller's Fall Preview Featured in The Guardian's Fall 2016 Books Preview: The Best American Writing From the "wonderfully talented" (Dwight Garner, New York Times) author of Mislaid and The Wallcreeper comes a fierce and audaciously funny new novel, dazzling in its energy and ambition: a story of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian father's childhood home. 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-one wickedly charming and obscenely rich (but mostly just wicked), one a photographer on a distant tropical island.
As the Baker family's lives begin to converge around the fate of the Nicotine House, Penny grows ever bolder and more desperate to protect it-and its residents-until a fateful night when a reckless confrontation between her old family and her new one changes everything. |
Contributor Bio(s): Zink, Nell: - Nell Zink grew up in rural Virginia. She has worked in a variety of trades, including masonry and technical writing. In the early 1990s, she edited an indie rock fanzine. Her books include The Wallcreeper, Mislaid, Private Novelist, and Nicotine, and her writing has appeared in n+1, Granta, and Harper's. She lives near Berlin, Germany. |