An Extraordinary Theory of Objects

It's Girl Interrupted meets Miranda July--with a touch of Joan Didion--in this captivating collection of original essays revolving around a young American girl's coming of age in Paris. As an adolescent in a foreign country, Stephanie LaCava found an unconventional way to deal with her social awkwardness and feelings of uncertainty about the future by taking solace from the strange and beautiful objects she came across in her daily life. Filled with beautiful illustrations and providing a retrospective of nineties fashion and culture, An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris is sure to be a collector's item for Francophiles or anyone who has ever found security in the strangest of places.

Author: Stephanie Lacava
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 11/19/2013
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.30h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780061963926

About the Author
Lacava, Stephanie: -

Stephanie LaCava is a writer working in New York and Paris. Her work has appeared in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Vogue, and other print and online publications, including The Paris Review and Tin House.