Birds of Paradise
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Call Number: Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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After a five year absence, an eighteen-year-old runaway returns to her family in Miami to deal with the guilty secret that caused her to flee.
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Intrigued & Annoyed
submitted by Beth Manuel on June 20, 2012, 3:56pm
While I kept reading this book past my 50 page rule, I was curious enough to read to find out why Felice, the now 18 year old runaway, had left her loving family in the first place. Her running away, to me, was inexplicable, even after the reason was divulged. The Mother, Avis, is a pastry chef, and while there are many fine details about her pastries & they sounded delicious, the exhaustive descriptions of her fancy-schmancy edible works were distracting.
It was OK, not gripping.
PUBLISHED
New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 362 p. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393064612
0393064611
SUBJECTS
Runaway teenagers -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Parent and teenager -- Fiction.
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
Miami (Fla.) -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.