Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking

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.

Author: Aoibheann Sweeney
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 07/01/2008
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 7.82h x 5.05w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780143113416

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 07/27/2008 pg. 24