Like Normal People
- ISBN-10
- 0618126929
- ISBN-13
- 9780618126927
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-04
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Karen E. Bender
Description
This auspicious and critically acclaimed first novel follows Lena, a forty-five-year-old woman who is trapped in childish behaviors, as she searches for a normal life, and her widowed mother, Ella, who relives her own dreams and disappointments while confronting the possibility of letting her daughter go. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.
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