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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
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English
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IN ZANESVILLE

Jo Ann Beard

A very sweet and impressive coming of age novel.

IN ZANESVILLE is as funny, achingly beautiful and richly observed as we could ever hope. This is a book about the kind of intense friendship that girls have growing up when you find a kindred spirit -a fellow soul she sees your worst haircuts, fashion choices, shares your goofy sense of humor and your delights and disappointments. Our first person narrator and Flea are the kind of friends who cannot bear to part when it is time to go home for dinner or when Flea's mother says "no" and puts her foot down to the fourth sleepover in a week. As the book progresses, our girls see their friendship tested by their families, popular girls, and of courses, crushes. Little by little they begin to realize that growing up may mean growing apart.

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Book Published 2011-08-25 by Little Brown
Book Published 2011-08-25 by Little Brown

Comments

“A witty, endearing coming-of-age tale about two girls navigating the typical minefields of adolescence in the 1970s.” Flavorwire includes IN ZANESVILLE in its Top 10 Must Reads for April, saying “Beard’s pitch-perfect story of the perils and joys of youth is funny and awkward, sweet and overwhelming, but most of all—unlike some novels like this—totally, sharply true.”