Life Is Funny - Softcover

Frank, E R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142300837 ISBN 13: 9780142300831

Publisher: Puffin Books, 2002

Synopsis

From the outside, they're simply a group of urban teenagers. But from the inside, they're some of the most complex people you'll ever meet. There's Eric, fiercely protective of his brother Mickey-but he has a secret that holds together his past and future. Sonia, struggling to live the life of a good Muslim girl in a foreign America. Gingerbread and Keisha, who fall in love despite themselves. Life Is Funny strips away the defenses of one group of teenagers living today, right now-and shows their unbearably real lives.

"First novelist Frank breaks new ground with a realistic, lyrical novel about eleven teens in Brooklyn now . . . Their talk is painful, rough, sexy, funny, fearful, furious, gentle. Each chapter, each vignette within a chapter, builds to its own climax, and the stories weave together to surprise you." (Booklist, starred review)

"An astounding first effort." (Kirkus Reviews, pointer review)

About this title

Review:

"Well-written and impressive debut....Readers...will enjoy the triumphs and be empathetic to the tragedies."
--VOYA "October 2016 "

About the Author:

E. R. Frank is an author, psychotherapist, and social worker. A native of Richmond, Virginia, Frank attended Vassar College, Hunter Graduate School of Social Work, and New York's Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. She is the author of five novels: Life Is Funny, Dime, America, Wrecked, and Friction. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0142300837
• ISBN 13: 9780142300831
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272