FREE: The Hole We're In *a novel by Gabrielle Zevin*

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Brand new paperback book from smoke free home. Still has the Borders price sticker on the back which says $14.00.
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Zevin is the author of the adult novel Margarettown (2005) and two YA novels (Elsewhere, 2005, and Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, 2007). Here she jettisons the fantasy element that has been a hallmark of her work for a sharp, funny, and timely look at a debt-ridden, God-fearing American family. When Evangelical Christian Roger uproots his family to Texas to pursue a PhD, his hapless wife, Georgia, attempting to support the family on a temp’s salary, heedlessly throws unopened bills in a kitchen drawer. When their financial house of cards finally falls, it is the youngest daughter, feisty Patsy, who pays the price; forced to enroll in the army in order to pay for college, she ends up being shipped off to Iraq. Zevin skewers a host of social issues from religious zealotry to the consequences of war to the entitlement mind-set of average Americans. What makes her book more than just a satire, though, is the deft way she thoroughly humanizes her characters. Readers will relate to and be moved by a beleaguered family’s attempts to climb out of debt and dysfunction. --Joanne Wilkinson
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