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Imperfect Birds

by Anne Lamott

Imperfect Birds

Hardcover, 278 pages, Penguin Group USA, List Price: $25.95 | purchase

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Book Summary

Anticipating a successful final year of high school in a new community, star student and athlete Rosie gives way to behaviors that reveal to her increasingly horrified parents that she has been abusing drugs and telling costly lies. By the author of Operating Instructions. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.

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Another animal fable from Life of Pi author Yann Martel; New Yorker editor David Remnick shows how President Barack Obama's life intersects with the story of race in America; and permissive parents cope with sex, drugs and a rebellious teen in Anne Lamott's Imperfect Birds.

Beatrice and Virgil; Imperfect Birds; The Bridge

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