**Thirty years after _From Rockaway_ ("A great first novel" --_Harper's Bazaar_), Jill Eisenstadt returns with a darkly funny new work of fiction that exposes a city and a family at their most vulnerable.** When Sue Glassman's family needs a new home, Sue relents, after years of resisting, and agr
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✍ Scribed by Duck, Julie Rieman
- Book ID
- 107192659
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 118 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
When Christian Rusch plucks Beck Ionesco from the freshman ranks for himself, she’s tempted with parties, popularity, and love. But as the free-flowing booze that soaks his world seeps into her own, Beck begins using liquid courage as a way to ignore Christian’s dark moods... and cover her anxiety about his flirtatious friend Hillman.
However, when Christian breaks up with Beck, and Hillman makes a dangerous move, no amount of alcohol can stop the pain or keep her out of trouble. And just when it seems like she’s lost everything, Beck is partnered with Jesse Leary for an art project. After spending time with him, Beck realizes it’s more than a study date... and Christian’s not happy about it. Then again, Beck’s not sure she’s happy with him, either.
But only after plowing through a bottle of wine, a wild fight, and one guardrail that becomes Christian’s last call, does Beck admit to her problem and ask for help from the one whose life secretly parallels her own.
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