Drinking Closer to Home - A Novel

Zusatztext "I have never encountered such exciting! eccentric! and lovably flawed characters as those Jessica Anya Blau creates in DRINKING CLOSER TO HOME." Informationen zum Autor Jessica Anya Blau was born in Boston and raised in Southern California. Her novels have been featured on The Today Show, CNN and NPR, and in Cosmo, Vanity Fair, Bust, Time Out, Oprah Summer Reads and other national publications. Jessica's short stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines, journals and anthologies. Jessica co-wrote the script for Love on the Run starring Frances Fisher and Steve Howey. She sometimes works as a ghost writer and has taught writing at Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College and The Fashion Institute of Technology. Jessica lives in New York.  Klappentext They say you can never really go home again. Adult siblings Anna, Portia, and Emery are about to discover just how true that is. Zusammenfassung “An honest, haunting portrayal of a beguiling, yet maddening family, who together come of age amidst the shifting morals of a country on the cusp of tremendous cultural change. With humor, compassion and a keen insight into the human psyche, Drinking Closer to Home proves that despite the best of intentions, where we come from and where we end up, are even closer than we could ever imagine.” —Robin Antalek, author of The Summer We Fell Apart “So raw and funny I wanted to read parts aloud to strangers.” —Dylan Landis, author of Normal People Don't Live Like This From Jessica Anya Blau, critically-acclaimed author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties and Mary Jane , a coming-of-age novel about growing up and learning to love your insane family. Drinking Closer to Home is a poignant and funny exploration of one family’s over-the-top eccentricities—a book Ron Tanner calls “heartfelt and hilarious.”

Product details

• Authors: Jessica Anya Blau, Blau Jessica Anya
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.01.2011
• EAN: 9780061984020
• ISBN: 978-0-06-198402-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: P.S.
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Humorous fiction, Relating to early adulthood, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Family Life / Siblings, FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: Small Town & Rural *, FICTION: Humorous / General, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: Romance / New Adult, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Modern and Contemporary romance, FICTION: Biographical & Autofiction