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Author Latiolais, Michelle, author.

Title She : fiction / Michelle Latiolais.

Publication Info. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2016]
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  LATIOLAIS, MICHELLE    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-LATIOLAIS    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 238 pages ; 22 cm
Summary A nameless fifteen-year-old runs away to Los Angeles, seeking life beyond the harsh constraints of her evangelical upbringing. She is the narrative of her passage, from her escape on a bus through her quiet, determined progress across the city's unforgiving terrain. The journey takes her into and around the lives of Angelinos from all walks: a dancer whose hyperactive sense of smell makes her fiance's presence insufferable; a penniless botanist who earns her keep creating sugar-icing flowers to decorate glamorous wedding cakes she can never afford; a dentist lamenting the abuses done to the teeth of a patient for whom he has cared dutifully. Her odd encounters, set against the backdrop of Los Angeles's flagrant wealth, cast into relief its eccentricities and the everyday trials faced by its collection of lost souls. Together these stories reflect and refract one another, illuminating a poignant, unflinching portrait of loss and the search for identity in its wake.
Subject Teenage girls -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
Runaway teenagers -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations. (OCoLC)fst00977397
Runaway teenagers. (OCoLC)fst01101304
Teenage girls. (OCoLC)fst01145412
California -- Los Angeles. (OCoLC)fst01204540
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Fiction.
ISBN 9780393285055 (hardcover)
0393285057 (hardcover)
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