
Like normal people
Edición de la obra Like normal people
| Autor | Karen E. Bender |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Houghton Mifflin |
| Fecha de publicación | 2000 |
| Lugar | Boston |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 269 |
| ISBN-10 | 0395945151 |
| OCLC | 42733644 |
| LCCN | 99056112 |
| Número de Cutter | B458l |
"Like Normal People charts a family constellation that revolves around an off-kilter center: Lena, who is forty-eight but mentally locked in her childhood. Moving deftly between present and past, the novel follows Lena's day-long escape from her residential home with her troubled twelve-year-old niece. While this odd couple takes refuge on a honky-tonk southern California beach, Lena's widowed mother, Ella, goes in search of them.". "In the process, Ella relives her own life's dreams and disappointments: her marriage to a sweet, loving shoe salesman; her discovery of Lena's handicap and her aching attempts to give her daughter a "normal" childhood. For so long, Lena has been the focus of Ella's world. When Lena at last finds approximate normalcy - by marrying a man much like herself - Ella must contend with letting her daughter go."--BOOK JACKET.