Secondhand Smoke
A gorgeous tragicomic novel of working-class New Orleans. Zib and Wilson Bailey-Jerusha's two grown kids-think the thick cloud of cigarette smoke enveloping their mother is what probably killed their father. Certainly the toxicity of Jerusha Bailey's dark and cynical attitudes has driven her children far from home. Wilson has escaped to Chicago, married, converted to Judaism, become a professor of Organic Evolution, all of which earns his mother's scorn. She doesn't think much of her daughter either: Zib, almost forty, unmarried and directionless, has made it only as far as the Florida Panhandle, where she's the assistant manager at the local…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-58243-217-5
- EAN: 9781582432175
- Produktnummer: 9768211
- Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 292 S.
- Masse: H21.1 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.2 cm 395 g
- Gewicht: 395
Über den Autor
Patty Friedmann is the author of fou r other books, including Eleanor Rushing and Odds. She lives in New Orleans.
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