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050 00 SF459.G4|bR63 2009
082 14 636.935/83|aB|222
100 1 Robinson, Holly,|d1955-
245 14 The gerbil farmer's daughter :|ba memoir /|cHolly
Robinson.
250 First edition.
264 1 New York :|bHarmony Books,|c[2009]
264 4 |c©2009
300 289 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
520 Robinson's traditional military-brat upbringing is upended
by her father's sudden and inexplicable fascination with
gerbils. As she details the family?s dedication to this
new project, her mother's grudging tolerance, and the
machinations required to keep the gerbils secret from the
navy (which would frown upon such kitschy weirdness),
Robinson makes her family seem ordinary in spite of this
one bit of strangeness. And her father was no rodent
dilettante, as evident in her chronicling of his years of
research into using gerbils in lab experiments and his
careful business plan. What keeps this surprising memoir
from becoming a Lucille Ball/Henry Fonda parody is, sadly,
the sudden death of Robinson's younger sister from cystic
fibrosis, a disease her father hopes can be cured through
scientific inquiry. Suddenly gerbil farming isn't so silly
after all.
600 10 Robinson, D. G.|q(Donald Granville),|d1928-
600 10 Robinson, Holly,|d1955-
650 0 Gerbils as pets|vAnecdotes.
650 0 Gerbils|xBreeding|vAnecdotes.
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