The most beautiful girl in the world : a novel / Judy Doenges.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doenges, Judy, 1959-

Series:

Sweetwater fiction. Originals

[Sweetwater fiction. Originals]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kidnapping--Fiction.

Kidnapping.

Fathers and daughters--Fiction.

Fathers and daughters.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

211 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2006]

Summary:

Judy Doenges' brilliant first novel is the deeply affecting story of Robin Simonsen, a girl growing up in the 1960s and '70s on the wrong side of a Chicago suburb. After the death of her young mother, Robin is left with her kind but irresponsible father?a junkman turned drug dealer?and her grandmother, a retired Vegas showgirl, both of whom draw local fixers and ex-cons into the Simonsens' increasingly shady home life. Bright, wise, and observant, Robin is the quiet outsider to her hedonistic family, struggling to come to terms with her ardent love for girls. Trapped in a house scarily alive with a rogues' gallery of hapless and often hilarious crooks, misfits, and hangers-on, Robin must look elsewhere for stability, befriending the son of the neighborhood's only African American family?a boy whose unimpeachable manners and flawless grades mask his own sexuality?and falling in love with the high-school beauty. Wry, edgy, and smart, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World offers a ne

Notes:

Series from jacket.

ISBN:

0472115618

OCLC:

62509245

Publisher Number:

9780472115617