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Little Brown and Company
May 2011
On Sale: April 25, 2011
304 pages
ISBN: 0316084476
EAN: 9780316084475
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The beguiling fourteen-year-old narrator of IN ZANESVILLE is
a late bloomer. She is used to flying under the radar-a
sidekick, a third wheel, a marching band dropout, a
disastrous babysitter, the kind of girl whose Eureka moment
is the discovery that "fudge" can't be said with an English
accent. Luckily, she has a best friend, a similarly undiscovered
girl with whom she shares the everyday adventures of a 1970s
American girlhood, incidents through which a world is
revealed, and character is forged. In time, their friendship is tested-- by their families'
claims on them, by a clique of popular girls who stumble
upon them as if they were found objects, and by the first,
startling, subversive intimations of womanhood. With dry wit and piercing observation, Jo Ann Beard shows us
that in the seemingly quiet streets of America's innumerable
Zanesvilles is a world of wonders, and that within the souls
of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something
radiant and unforgettable.
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