Still Life with Tornado
of A.S. King (Goodreads Author)
Description
âI am sixteen years old. I am a human being.âActually Sarah is several human beings. At once. And only one of them is sixteen. Her parents insist sheâs a gifted artist with a bright future, but now she canât draw a thing, not even her own hand. Meanwhile, thereâs a ten-year-old Sarah with a filthy mouth, a bad sunburn, and a clear memory of the family vacation in Mexico that ruined everything. Sheâs a ray of sunshine compared to twenty-three-year-old Sarah, who has snazzy highlights and a bad attitude. And then thereâs forty-year-old Sarah (makes good queso dip, doesnât wear a bra, really wants sixteen-year-old Sarah to tell the truth about her art teacher). Theyâre all wandering Philadelphiaâalong with a homeless artist allegedly named Earlâand theyâre all worried about Sarahâs future.But Sarahâs future isnât the problem. The present is where she might be having an existential crisis. Or maybe all those other Sarahs are trying to wake her up before sheâs lost forever in the tornado of violence and denial that is her parentsâ marriage.âI am a human being. I am sixteen years old. That should be enough.â
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 295 pages
- Publisher Dutton Books for Young Readers
- Publication Date October 11th 2016
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9781101994887
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
- Scenario ['Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)', 'Mexico']
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