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O'Dell, Tawni.
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Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
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O'Dell, Tawni.
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
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Back roads / Tawni O'Dell.
by
O'Dell, Tawni.
Viking, 2000.
Call #:
FICTION
ODE
Subjects
Dysfunctional families --
Fiction
.
Families --
Fiction
.
Pennsylvania --
Fiction
.
Series
Oprah's book club
ISBN:
0670894184
0451202341 (pbk.)
0670887609
Description:
viii, 338 p.
405 p. ; 18 cm.
Summary:
Nineteen-year-old Harley is left to rear his three younger sisters after their mother is imprisoned for murdering their abusive father in this searing, hardscrabble Party of Five set in Pennsylvania mining country. Doubly resentful because his best friend is off at college, Harley spends his days slogging as a Shop Rite bagger and appliance-shop delivery person, coming home to cold cereal dinners prepared by six-year-old Jody. Harley is bitter about having to take over for his mother "she still had us kids but we didn't have her" and he can't shake the feeling that she prefers prison to their home life; a mystery lingers around his father's death. Meanwhile, 16-year-old Amber is sleeping her way through the town's teenage boys and flaunting her body in front of Harley; middle sister Misty, once her father's favorite and his hunting companion, practices shooting. Desperate for relief, Harley finds solace in rough but exhilarating encounters with married Callie Mercer, little Jody's best friend's mother, losing his virginity to her on a muddy creek bank and reveling in her sophisticated, sensitive words.
Genre:
Bildungsromans.
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