Bewilderness

Name: Bewilderness
Brand: Catapult
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By Karen Tucker

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Set in rural, poverty-stricken North Carolina, this funny, painful, and very wise novel follows two young women--best friends--as they struggle to free themselves from opioid addiction, perfect for readers of Julie Buntin's Marlena. Irene, a lonely nineteen-year-old in rural North Carolina, works long nights at the local pool hall, serving pitchers and dodging drunks. One evening, her hilarious, magnetic coworker Luce invites her on a joy ride through the mountains to take revenge on a particularly creepy customer. Their adventure not only spells the beginning of a dazzling friendship, it seduces both girls into the mysterious world of pills and the endless hustles needed to fund the next high. Together, Irene and Luce run nickel-tossing scams at the county fair and trick dealers into trading legit pharms for birth-control pills. Everything is wild and wonderful until Luce finds a boyfriend who wants to help her get clean. Soon the two of them decide to move away and start a new, sober life in Florida--leaving Irene behind. Told in a riveting dialogue between the girls' addicted past and their hopes for a better future, Bewilderness is not just a brilliant, funny, heartbreaking novel about opioid abuse, it's also a moving look at how intense, intimate friendships can shape every young woman's life.

Product details

Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 288
Publisher:: Catapult
Publication Date:: 2021-06-01
ISBN / EAN:: 9781646220243
Weight:: 448 g
Dimensions:: 15/22/3 cm

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