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A General Fiction Novel by Elinor Lipman
Subgenres:
- Coming-of-Age,
- Campus Novel,
- 1970s Massachusetts
This book is for you if you're into...
- Campus novels with eccentric academic families
- Coming-of-age stories set in 1970s Massachusetts
- Offbeat humor about family upheaval and college life
A liberal New England college campus is a peculiar place for a girl to grow up in this "lovable, psychologically intricate [and] bittersweet farce." Massachusetts, 1970s. Born to a pair of "bleeding heart" professors who live on campus as dorm parents, Frederica Hatch soon finds herself the unofficial mascot of Dewing College. Life is so ideal that by the time she becomes a teenager, Frederica finds herself chafing under the care of "the most annoyingly evenhanded parental team in the history of civilization." But she's about to learn that life isn't as simple or idyllic as it seems—even amid the manicured lawns of a small women's college like Dewing. A new dorm parent has just arrived on campus. Laura Lee French is glamorous, worldly, and the former wife of Frederica's father. Suddenly, Frederica sees her parents' lives—and by extension her own—in a whole new light.
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