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After she and her beautiful, free-spirited single mother fall for the same man, Roanne Chappell, the feisty 14-year-old narrator of Garnett's exhilarating debut novel, realizes that she needs to leave home for the summer to gain a little breathing...
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After she and her beautiful, free-spirited single mother fall for the same man, Roanne Chappell, the feisty 14-year-old narrator of Garnett's exhilarating debut novel, realizes that she needs to leave home for the summer to gain a little breathing space. Heading south from Yachats, Ore., to California, she stops to visit famous cartoonist D.D.A., a kind, gay French-Canadian dwarf she looks to as a mentor. This first destination is unusual enough, but Roanne's travels take her to increasingly strange places, from the surreal home of her troubled friend Gabe, the son of two washed-up western stars-turned-evangelists, to beautiful, cold Malibu Colony, home of the cartoonist's gigantic and brooding brother Pascal, a talented photographer, and Gilbey Tarr, a gorgeous, openhearted, alcoholic 16-year-old nouveau riche heiress soon to become Roanne's best friend. Roanne's hunger-- her sheer adolescent greed--for life and love and connection and experience bring her some wonderful memories and... See less 
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