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Author:

Buntin, Julie, author.

Title:

Marlena : a novel / Julie Buntin.

Publisher:

Henry Holt and Co.,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

Female friendship--Fiction.
Influence (Psychology)--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Drug use--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Death--Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) in women--Fiction.
Michigan--Fiction.

Summary:

"An electric debut novel about love, addiction, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life, and define the other's for decades. 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 catalogues 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."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1627797645
9781627797641

OCLC:

(OCoLC)950430570

LCCN:

2016021949

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VTPD454 -- Cresco Public Library (Cresco)

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YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

WFPC115 -- Newell Public Library (Newell)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

UJPE911 -- Norwalk Easter Public Library (Norwalk)

ZUPD675 -- Onawa Public Library (Onawa)

AWPD207 -- Osceola Public Library (Osceola)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

GMPD771 -- Pleasant Hill Public Library (Pleasant Hill)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

YWPD162 -- Tipton Public Library (Tipton)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)