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Porcupines: A Novel
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Named A Most Anticipated Book By VogueIf Gilmore Girls Had Sharper Edges And Came With A Los Angeles Sunburn, YouD Have This Riveting Novel, A Love Letter To Kids Who Are Done Keeping Their Parents Secrets. Courtney Maum, Author Of I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without Youa Fresh And Witty Debut About A Young Immigrant Mother And Her Increasingly Inquisitive Daughter, Who Wakes Up One Day And Decides To Find Out Who Her Father Is.Sonia Is A Hungarian Immigrant Who Is Raising Her Daughter, MilaHer Beloved MiloshOn Her Own In Sunny Los Angeles. Her Days Are A Blur Of NotQuiteIllegal Business Activities, Dodging Pta Moms, And Baking Birthday Cakes Laced With RumMinor Mistakes That Nevertheless Continually Remind Her Of Everything She DoesnT Understand About America And Parenthood. Mila, Meanwhile, Is Juggling Violin And Swimming Lessons And Navigating The Treacherous Social Politics Of School With The Help Of A LessThanHelpful Guidebook On How To Be Cool In The Sixth GradeAll The While Trying To Get Her Secretive Mother To Share Something, Anything, About Her Past.Sonia Is Sure That Their Bond, Stitched From DriveThrough Dinners, Extracurricular Activities, And A Lot Of Exasperated Affection For Each OtherWill Be Enough To Satisfy Her Daughter. But Her Guarded Lifestyle Has Left Mila Lonely, Isolated, And Ready To Write Herself Into A Bigger Story. When She Stumbles Across Emails Between Her Mother And A Man SheS Never Met, Mila Decides To Take Matters Into Her Own Hands And Forms A Plan That Will Implode Their Carefully Constructed Lives.Moving Between Budapest Before The Fall Of The Berlin Wall; Washington, Dc, In The Tense Years Of The Cold War; And The Bright Sunshine Of Early Aughts Los Angeles, Porcupines Is An Irresistible Novel About Mothers And Daughters, Secrecy And Loneliness, Belonging And ReinventionAnd What Happens When The Truth CanT Be Held Back Any Longer.
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