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02045aam a2200325Ii 4500 001 C515020A483D11EC9D3FC60530ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211118010056 008 170803t20182018nyu e 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1250160154 020 $a 9781250160157 020 $a 9781509844142 020 $a 1509844147 035 $a (OCoLC)982008806 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d XL4 $d UBC $d OCLCF $d SILO 100 1 $a Buntin, Julie $e author 245 10 $a Marlena 250 $a First Picador edition 264 1 $a New York : $b Picador, $c [2018] 300 $a 274 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena's orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blond hair. As the two girls turn the untamed landscape of their desolate small town into a kind of playground, Cat catalogs a litany of firsts--first drink, first cigarette, first kiss--while Marlena's habits harden and calcify. Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water in the woods nearby. Now, decades later, when a ghost from that pivotal year surfaces unexpectedly, Cat must try to forgive herself and move on, even as the memory of Marlena keeps her tangled in the past.Alive with an urgent, unshakable tenderness, Julie Buntin's Marlena is an unforgettable look at the people who shape us beyond reason and the ways it might be possible to pull oneself back from the brink 650 0 $a Female Friendship $v Fiction 650 0 $a Influence (psychology) $v Fiction 650 0 $a Teenage Girls $x Drug Use $v Fiction 650 0 $a Teenage Girls $x Death $v Fiction 650 0 $a Self-actualization (psychology) In Women $v Fiction 651 0 $a Michigan $v Fiction 941 $a 1 952 $l TKPE492 $d 20211118021243.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C515020A483D11EC9D3FC60530ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search