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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 Desirée Christian-Cohen flees
her sometime-boyfriend, unhappy mother, Nina (who’s
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 “tourist” in Honey Creek weren’t noticeable enough, try
hanging out in the Sweet Tooth luncheonette, where you’re
referred to as “half a Jew.” Wary of , but wanting to,
fit in with the local populace, Desirée 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
never—even as an only child of typically doting Manhattan
parents—has anyone paid so much attention to Desirée. Over one surprising, transformative and sometimes very
funny summer, Desirée 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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