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02140aam a2200385 i 4500 001 46D27E7005E311EA936CF50A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191113010024 008 181227t20192019cau 000 1 eng 010 $a 2018060435 020 $a 1640093273 020 $a 9781640093270 020 $a 1640092420 020 $a 9781640092426 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-va $a n-us-md $a n-us-va 050 00 $a PS3607.O448 $b H37 2019 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Goldblatt, Amanda, $e author. 245 10 $a Hard mouth : $b a novel / $c Amanda Goldblatt. 250 $a First paperback edition. 264 1 $a Berkeley, California : $b Counterpoint, $c 2019. 300 $a 245 pages; $c 21 cm. 520 $a For ten years, Denny's father has battled cancer. The drawn-out loss has forged Denny into a dazed, antisocial young woman. On the clock, she works as a lab tech, readying fruit flies for experimentation. In her spare time, only her parents, an aggressively kind best friend, and her blowhard imaginary pal Gene--who she knows isn't real--ornament her stale days in the DC suburbs. Now her father's cancer is back for a third time, and he's rejecting treatment. Denny's transgressive reaction is to flee. She begins to dismantle her life, constructing in its place the fantasy of perfect detachment. Unsure whether the impulse is monastic or suicidal, she rents a secluded cabin in the mountains. When she discovers life in the wilderness isn't the perfect detachment she was expecting--and that she isn't as alone as she'd hoped--Denny is forced to reckon with this failure while confronting a new life with its own set of pleasures and dangerous incursions. 650 0 $a Terminally ill parents $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Grief $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Imaginary companions $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Introspection $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 3 952 $l GHPD771 $d 20210204024748.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20191213010850.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20191203011849.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=46D27E7005E311EA936CF50A97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search