The tribes of Palos Verdes / Joy Nicholson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicholson, Joy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers and sons--Fiction.

Mothers and sons.

Siblings--Fiction.

Brothers and sisters.

Surfers--California--Fiction.

Surfers.

California.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

218 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Summary:

Medina Mason and her twin brother Jim have just moved with their parents - their father, a heart surgeon to the stars; their mother, a former beauty queen trying to eat her way to happiness - to the exclusive California beach community of Palos Verdes. Medina at fourteen is awkward, hostile, instantly unpopular, while good-looking, easygoing Jim is quickly at home among the surfers, "towel girls", and potheads who make up the local surf scene. As Medina watches her parents' marriage disintegrate and her brother drift dangerously away from her, she turns to surfing, finding a bitter solace in the challenge of the waves. But no matter how much control Medina gains against the sea, at home and at school her life remains chaotic. While a red tide approaches, brushfires rage, and Jim is caught in the middle of his parents' cruel warfare, Medina struggles to save herself and her brother from the forces that conspire to tear them apart.

ISBN:

0312156774

OCLC:

36663028