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St. Martin's Press
August 2010
On Sale: August 3, 2010
272 pages
ISBN: 0312565003
EAN: 9780312565008
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
Even life in the greatest city in the world can sometimes feel like a little too much. For this New Yorker, running away to the Heartland may be just the antidote. When New York City native DesirΓ©e Christian-Cohen flees her sometime-boyfriend, unhappy mother, Nina (whoβs recently learned her soon-to-be ex-husband Patrick is gay), and failing grandfather, she picks the flight plan by randomly dropping her finger on a map and hitting: Honey Creek, Kansas, population 1,623. And if being a βtouristβ in Honey Creek werenβt noticeable enough, try hanging out in the Sweet Tooth luncheonette, where youβre referred to as βhalf a Jew.β Wary of , but wanting to, fit in with the local populace, DesirΓ©e is forced to defend herself and define herself in a world that feels vastly different from her own. Her Yale boyfriends were never like Bobby McVicar, the son of two ageing hippies, who finds all he needs in his pinprick of a hometown. And neverβeven as an only child of typically doting Manhattan parentsβhas anyone paid so much attention to DesirΓ©e. Over one surprising, transformative and sometimes very funny summer, DesirΓ©e Christian-Cohen, member-in-good- standing of the Self Esteem Generation, discovers how an impulsive escape from home and family turns out to be much more than that.
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