Smithereens

Susan Taylor Chehak

first published 1995 Doubleday, 1995 312 pages

It is May Caldwell's sixteenth summer, and life couldn't be more dull in Linwood, Iowa. Vaguely suicidal and haunted by half-remembered scenes from her early childhood, May is a girl waiting for her life to happen. And happen it does with the unexpected arrival of Frances Anne Crane, a.k.a. Frankie, a girl with too much past and nothing to lose. Together they seduce an older man as Frankie awakens all that May has b...

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Smithereens edition · 2002 · DoubleDay · 320 pages · 9780385506878
Smithereens edition · 1996 · Quartet · 312 pages
Smithereens edition · 1996 · Washington Square Press · 312 pages
Smithereens edition · 1995 · Doubleday · 312 pages

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