A Room on Lorelei Street
By Mary E. Pearson
(Square Fish, Paperback, 9780312380199, 288pp.)
Publication Date: September 30, 2008
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A room is not much. It is not arms holding you. Not a kiss on the forehead. Not a packed lunch or a remembered birthday. Just a room. But for seventeen-year-old Zoe, struggling to shed the suffocating responsibility of her alcoholic mother and the controlling guilt of her grandmother, a rented room on Lorelei Street is a fierce grab for control of her own future. Zoe rents her room from Opal Keats, an eccentric old lady who has a difficult past of her own, but who chooses to live in the possibility of the future. Zoe tries to find that same possibility in her own future, promising that she will never go crawling back. But with all odds against her, can a seventeen-year-old with a job slinging hash make it on her own? Zoe struggles with this worry and the guilt of abandoning her mother as she goes to lengths that even she never dreamed she would in order to keep the room on Lorelei Street.
Mary Pearson is the author of two previous novels for young adults, David V. God and Scribbler of Dreams. Her next book, The Adoration of Jenna Fox, will be published by Henry Holt in May 2008. She lives in Carlsbad, CA with her husband. Visit Mary Pearson at her website: www.marypearson.com.
“Pearson sophisticatedly crafts a quietly cramped, small-town Texas community. All literary elements . . . seamlessly and poetically coalesce.”—Kirkus Reviews
“You may not agree with her choices, but you’ll think about them long after you finish her story. READ IT.”—Teen People
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