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Like normal people

Title
Like normal people / Karen E. Bender.
Author
Bender, Karen E.
Publication
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

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Book/TextUse in library PS3552.E53849 L55 2000Off-site

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Description
viii, 269 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  • "Like Normal People charts a family constellation that revolves around an off-kilter center: Lena, who is forty-eight but mentally locked in her childhood. Moving deftly between present and past, the novel follows Lena's day-long escape from her residential home with her troubled twelve-year-old niece. While this odd couple takes refuge on a honky-tonk southern California beach, Lena's widowed mother, Ella, goes in search of them."
  • "In the process, Ella relives her own life's dreams and disappointments: her marriage to a sweet, loving shoe salesman; her discovery of Lena's handicap and her aching attempts to give her daughter a "normal" childhood. For so long, Lena has been the focus of Ella's world. When Lena at last finds approximate normalcy - by marrying a man much like herself - Ella must contend with letting her daughter go."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Mothers and daughters > Fiction
  • Women with mental disabilities > Fiction
  • Missing persons > Fiction
  • Domestic fiction
  • Domestic fiction
  • Missing persons
  • Mothers and daughters
  • Women with mental disabilities
  • California, Southern > Fiction
  • Southern California
Genre/Form
  • Domestic fiction.
  • Domestic fiction
  • Fiction
Contents
"Like Normal People charts a family constellation that revolves around an off kilter center: Lena, who is forty eight but mentally locked in her childhood. Moving deftly between present and past, the novel follows Lena's day long escape from her residential home with her troubled twelve year old niece. While this odd couple takes refuge on a honky tonk southern California beach, Lena's widowed mother, Ella, goes in search of them.". "In the process, Ella relives her own life's dreams and disappointments: her marriage to a sweet, loving shoe salesman; her discovery of Lena's handicap and her aching attempts to give her daughter a "normal" childhood. For so long, Lena has been the focus of Ella's world. When Lena at last finds approximate normalcy, by marrying a man much like herself, Ella must contend with letting her daughter go." -- BOOK JACKET.
ISBN
  • 0395945151
  • 9780395945155
  • 0618126929
  • 9780618126927
LCCN
99056112
OCLC
  • ocm42733644
  • 42733644
  • SCSB-1123312
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library