β Scribed by Jack Womack
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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Paperback, 256 pages
Published 1993
Grove Press (2007)
Masterworks of Science Fiction
Until recently, Lola Hartβs biggest problem was her annoying little sister. Now the twelve-year-old girlβs comfortable life is slowly falling apart. Her mother is a teacher, but sheβs lost her job. Her father is a writer, but no one is buying his scripts. When the family can no longer afford either their Manhattan apartment or the tuition for Lolaβs exclusive private school, they are forced to radically change their lifestyle.
They move to a small apartment near Harlem, and Lola enrolls in public schoolβbut the Harts arenβt alone in their troubles. Riots, fires, TB outbreaks, roaming gangs, and civil unrest have become commonplace, threatening the very fabric of life in New York. In the pages of her diary, Lola documents her familyβs attempts to adjust to a city and a country that are spinning out of control.
Jack Womack, a winner of the Philip K. Dick Award, has been compared to both William Gibson and Kurt Vonnegut for his vivid prose and unbridled imagination. In this novel, βWomackβs stark vision of the United Statesβ decline is an uncompromising satire that, perhaps even more than it did in the mid-1990s, forces us to confront a world instantly recognizable as our ownβ (Los Angeles Review of Books).
βA heartrending coming-of-age story. Flecked with black humor, this is speculative fiction at its eerie best.β βEntertainment Weekly
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