Like normal people

Karen E. Bender

earliest edition we have, 2000 Houghton Mifflin, 2000 269 pages

"Like Normal People charts a family constellation that revolves around an off-kilter center: Lena, who is forty-eight but mentally locked in her childhood. Moving deftly between present and past, the novel follows Lena's day-long escape from her residential home with her troubled twelve-year-old niece. While this odd couple takes refuge on a honky-tonk southern California beach, Lena's widowed mother, Ella, goes in s...

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Like normal people edition · 2001 · Picador · 269 pages
Like normal people edition · 2000 · Houghton Mifflin · 269 pages
Like normal people edition · 2000 · Picador · 269 pages
Like normal people edition · 2000 · G.K. Hall · 384 pages

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