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020    9781524799410|q(hardcover ;|qacid-free paper) 
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092    |fF|aWHITTALL 
100 1  Whittall, Zoe,|eauthor. 
245 14 The spectacular :|ba novel /|cZoe Whittall. 
250    First U.S. edition. 
264  1 New York :|bBallantine Books,|c[2021] 
300    354 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "Three generations of women strive for real freedom in 
       this startling, provocative novel exploring sexuality, 
       gender, and maternal ambivalence, from the acclaimed 
       author of The Best Kind of People. It's 1997 and Missy's 
       band has finally hit the big time as they tour across 
       America. At twenty-two years old, Missy gets on stage 
       every night and plays the song about her absent mother 
       that made the band famous. Missy is the only girl in the 
       band and she's determined to party just as hard as 
       everyone else, loving and leaving someone in every town. 
       But then a forgotten party favor strands her at the 
       border. Fortysomething Carola is just surfacing from a sex
       scandal at the yoga center where she has been living when 
       she sees her daughter, Missy, for the first time in ten 
       years--on the cover of a music magazine. Ruth is eighty-
       three and planning her return to the Turkish seaside 
       village where she spent her childhood. But when her 
       granddaughter Missy winds up crashing at her house, she 
       decides it's time that the strong and stubborn women in 
       her family find a way to understand each other again. In 
       this sharply observed novel, Zoe Whittall captures three 
       very different women who struggle to build an authentic 
       life. Definitions of family, romance, gender, and love 
       will radically change as they seek out lives that are 
       nothing less than spectacular"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Women|vFiction. 
650  0 Mothers and daughters|vFiction.