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A handbook for beautiful people
- Title
- A handbook for beautiful people / a novel by Jennifer Spruit.
- Author
- Spruit, Jennifer, 1982-
- Publication
- Toronto, Canada : Inanna Publications and Education Inc., 2017.
- ©2017
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 18-345 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 267 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "When twenty-two-year-old Marla finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, she wishes for a family, but faces precariousness: an uncertain future with her talented, exacting boyfriend, Liam; constant danger from her roommate, Dani, a sometime prostitute and entrenched drug addict; and the unannounced but overwhelming needs of her younger brother, Gavin, whom she has brought home for the first time from deaf school. Forcing her hand is Marla's fetal alcohol syndrome, which sets her apart but also carries her through. When Marla loses her job and breaks her arm in a car accident, Liam asks her to marry him. It's what she's been waiting for: a chance to leave Dani, but Dani doesn't take no for an answer. Marla stays strong when her mother shows up drunk, creates her own terms when Dani publicly shames her, and then falls apart when Gavin attempts suicide. It rains, and then pours, and when the Bow River finally overflows, flooding Marla's entire neighbourhood, she is ready to admit that she wants more for her child than she can possibly give right now. Marla's courage to ask for help and keep her mind open transforms everyone around her, cementing her relationships and proving to those who had doubted her that having a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder does not make a person any less noble, wise or caring."--
- Series Statement
- Inanna poetry & fiction series
- Uniform Title
- Inanna poetry & fiction series.
- Subject
- Call Number
- JFD 18-345
- ISBN
- 9781771334419
- 177133441X
- OCLC
- 981172616
- Author
- Spruit, Jennifer, 1982- author.
- Title
- A handbook for beautiful people / a novel by Jennifer Spruit.
- Publisher
- Toronto, Canada : Inanna Publications and Education Inc., 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Inanna poetry & fiction seriesInanna poetry & fiction series.
- Other Form:
- Spruit, Jennifer, 1982-, author. Handbook for beautiful people./ Toronto, Canada : Inanna Publications and Education Inc., 2017. Inanna poetry and fiction series Inanna poetry & fiction series (CaOONL)20179053809
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-345