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(0)Joanna Rose
Author
Publisher
Forest Avenue Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
How does a librarian from New Jersey end up in a convenience store on Vancouver Island in the middle of the night, playing Bible Scrabble with a Korean physicist and a drunk priest? She gets married to the wrong man for starters--she didn't know he was 'that kind of Catholic'--and ends up in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She gets a job in a New Age bookstore, wanders toward Buddhism without realizing it, and acquires a dog. Things get complicated after that....
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A girl's moving tale of growing up among hippies without her real father or mother. She is Sarajean, 5, who lives with Jimmy, a heroin-addicted Vietnam veteran, and his alternating girlfriends. She tells her story without rancor, not knowing any other life, though she does long for a steady mother. One day she runs off to find her identity and that's when Jimmy rises to the occasion. The setting is 1970s Denver. A debut in fiction.