Girl talk / Julianna Baggott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baggott, Julianna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Fatherless families--Fiction.

Fatherless families.

Pregnant women--Fiction.

Pregnant women.

New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Physical Description:

viii, 245 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Pocket Books, [2001]

Summary:

Lissy Jablonski was fifteen during the summer of 1985. That was the summer that her father, a soft-spoken gynecologist, up and left her mother for a redheaded bank teller. That same summer Lissy and her mother disappeared from their quiet New Hampshire lives to have an adventure of their own amid a cast of unlikely characters, including a Valium addicted debutante and a suspected mobster. The summer the reliably comforting "girl talks" with her mother began to revel startling secrets.

Now an almost thirty-year old advertising executive in Manhattan, faced with her father's imminent death and newly pregnant by her married ex-lover, an unmoored Lissy finds herself looking back across the years. Contending with her affections for an old flame and his doomed marriage to a Korean stripper named Kitty Hawk, as well as the tangible legacies of that unmentionable summer with her mother, she realizes that she has become more like her mother than she ever could have imagined.

ISBN:

0743400828

OCLC:

44509328