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Store Events - December 13, 4:00 p.m.
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Time: Sunday, December 13, 2009 4:00 p.m.
Location: Garden District Book Shop
Title of Event: Dylan Landis/Normal People Don't Live Like This
Dylan Landis discusses and signs her book Normal People Don’t Live Like This: Novel in Short Stories. Former New Orleanian, Times Picayune medical reporter, and friend to Pia Ehrhardt.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.
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Normal People Don't Live Like This
by
Landis, Dylan
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$15.00
Published: Persea Books, 2009
Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability
At the center of this startling fiction debut is Leah Levinson, a teen at sea in the anonymous ordeals of a middle-class upbringing on the Upper West Side in the 1970s. In ten installments, written from varying perspectives, we witness her uneasy relationships with faster, looser peers-girls she is drawn to but also alienated by. No one, though, alienates Leah more than her mother, Helen. Estranged yet intertwined, they struggle within the confines of their personalities, unaware of how similar their paths are. Just when they seem at a lonely impasse, each makes an impulsive change-Leah taking a risky trip abroad, Helen renting a secret room in a welfare hotel. Jolted from their old patterns, the two of them independently glimpse the possibility of a more hopeful life. Dylan Landis is a gifted portraitist of unforgettable female characters. Normal People Don't Live Like This is a striking debut.
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