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02497aam a2200313 i 4500 001 2F8EAF8695A811EAA290F02C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200514010010 008 190805t20202019nyua e 000 f eng d 020 $a 9780525559245 020 $a 0525559248 035 $a (OCoLC)1111394653 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d JUH $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Kane, Jessica Francis, $d 1971- $e author. 245 10 $a Rules for visiting : $b a novel / $c Jessica Francis Kane ; illustrations by Edward Carey. 264 1 $a New York : $b Penguin Books, $c 2020. 300 $a 289 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 520 $a A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year. At forty, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the years, she's turned inward, finding pleasure in language, her work as a gardener, and keeping her neighbors at arm's length while keenly observing them. But when she is unexpectedly granted some leave from her job, May is inspired to reconnect with four once close friends. She knows they will never have a proper reunion, so she goes, one-by-one, to each of them. A student of the classics, May considers her journey a female Odyssey. What might the world have had if, instead of waiting, Penelope had set out on an adventure of her own? This novel is a woman's exploration of friendship in the digital age. Deeply alert to the nobility and the ridiculousness of ordinary people, May savors the pleasures along the way -- afternoon ice cream with a long-lost friend, surprise postcards from an unexpected crush, and a moving encounter with ancient beauty. Though she gets a taste of viral online fame, May chooses to bypass her friends' perfectly cultivated online lives to instead meet them in their messy analog ones. Ultimately, May learns that a best friend is someone who knows your story -- and she inspires us all to master the art of visiting. 650 0 $a Female friendship $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Gardeners $v Fiction. 651 0 $a United States $x Social life and customs $y 20th century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 4 952 $l BRPD251 $d 20240119020905.0 952 $l TSPC862 $d 20230201025304.0 952 $l UJPE911 $d 20210526010832.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20200514010434.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2F8EAF8695A811EAA290F02C97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search