Strange Heaven (Paperback, 3rd ed.)

Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award, Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award, Dartmouth Book Award, and Thomas Head Raddall AwardShortlisted, Governor General's Award for FictionShe's depressed, they say. Apathetic. Bridget Murphy, almost eighteen, has had it with her zany family. When she is transferred to the psych ward after giving birth and putting her baby up for adoption, it is a welcome relief -- even with the manic ranting of a teen stripper and come-ons of another delusional inmate. But this oasis of relative calm is short-lived. Christmas is coming, and Uncle Albert arrives to whisk her back to the bedlam of home and the booze-soaked social life that got her into trouble in the first place. Her grandmother raves from her bed, banging the wall with a bedpan through a litany of profanities. Her father curses while her mother tries to keep the lid on developmentally delayed Uncle Rollie. The baby's father wants to sue her, and her friends don't get that she's changed.

General

Imprint:	Goose Lane Editions
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	May 2010
First published:	May 2010
Authors:	Lynn Coady
Afterword by:	Marina Endicott
Dimensions:	215 x 139 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	216
Edition:	3rd ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-86492-617-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-86492-617-0
Barcode:	9780864926173

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