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Snowflake : a novel
- Title
- Snowflake : a novel / Louise Nealon.
- Author
- Nealon, Louise
- Publication
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]
- ©2021
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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 | JFE 21-7803 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 328 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Eighteen-year-old Debbie was raised on her family's rural dairy farm, forty minutes and a world away from Dublin. She lives with her mother, Maeve, a skittish woman who takes to her bed for days on end, claims not to know who Debbie's father is, and believes her dreams are prophecies. Rounding out their small family is Maeve's brother Billy, who lives in a caravan behind their house, drinks too much, and likes to impersonate famous dead writers online. Though they may have their quirks, the Whites' fierce love for one another is never in doubt. But Debbie's life is changing. Earning a place at Trinity College Dublin, she commutes to her classes a few days a week. Outside the sheltered bubble of her childhood for the first time, Debbie finds herself both overwhelmed and disappointed by her fellow students and the pace and anonymity of city life. While the familiarity of the farm offers comfort, Debbie still finds herself pulling away from it. Yet just as she begins to ponder the possibilities the future holds, a resurgence of strange dreams raises her fears that she may share Maeve's fate. Then a tragic accident upends the family's equilibrium, and Debbie discovers her next steps may no longer be hers to choose.
- Alternative Title
- Snow flake
- Subject
- Teenage girls > Fiction
- College students > Fiction
- Dysfunctional families > Fiction
- Life change events > Fiction
- Depression, Mental > Fiction
- Self-realization in women > Fiction
- Dairy farms > Fiction
- Families > Fiction
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- FICTION / Small Town & Rural
- FICTION / Family Life / General
- College students
- Dairy farms
- Depression, Mental
- Dysfunctional families
- Families
- Life change events
- Self-realization in women
- Teenage girls
- Dublin (Ireland) > Fiction
- Kildare (Ireland : County) > Fiction
- Ireland > Dublin
- Ireland > Kildare (County)
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsroman.
- Domestic fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- Note
- Originally published in the United Kingdom by Manilla Press.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-7803
- ISBN
- 9780063073937
- 0063073935
- OCLC
- 1259441428
- Author
- Nealon, Louise, author.
- Title
- Snowflake : a novel / Louise Nealon.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-7803