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Cygnet : a novel / Season Butler.
Van Pelt Library PS3602.U8547 C94 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Butler, Season, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Hampshire--Fiction.
- New Hampshire.
- Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Loneliness--Fiction.
- Loneliness.
- Teenage girls--Fiction.
- Teenage girls.
- Older people--Fiction.
- Older people.
- Aging--Fiction.
- Aging.
- Islands--Fiction.
- Islands.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]
- Summary:
- The Kid doesn't know where her parents are. They left with a promise to come back months ago, and now their seventeen-year-old daughter is stranded on Swan Island. Swan isn't just any island; it is home to an eccentric old age separatist community who have shunned life on the mainland for a haven which is rapidly sinking into the ocean. The Kid's arrival threatens to burst the idyllic bubble that the elderly residents have so carefully constructed - an unwelcome reminder of the life they left behind, and one they want rid of. Cygnet is the story of a young woman battling against the thrashing waves of loneliness and depression, and how she learns to find hope, laughter and her own voice in a world that's crumbling around her.
- Notes:
- Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2019 by Dialogue Books, an imprint of Little, Brown UK.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780062870919
- 0062870912
- OCLC:
- 1105161258
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