Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking (1955)

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Critically acclaimed by reviewers across the country, Aoibheann Sweeney's beautifully written debut novel is a story of the profound human need for intimacy. For Miranda, the adolescence spent in her fog-shrouded Maine home has been stark and isolated - alone with her troubled father, a man consumed with his work translating Ovid's Metamorphoses , her mother mysteriously gone from their lives. Now, having graduated from high school, Miranda's father arranges for her to stay with old friends in Manhattan, and she embarks on a journey that will open up her father's past - and her own world - in ways she cannot begin to imagine