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Synopsis
The author of Depth Takes a Holiday presents a zany Southern California parody of A Year in Provence as she describes life in the suburb from Hell in a series of seasonal observations--"The Winter of Our Discontent," "Spring Without Bending Your Knees," "Summer Where We Winter," and "Fall of Our Dearest Expectations." 20,000 first printing.
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Sandra Tsing Loh is a writer and performer who has written three books: Depth Takes a Holiday, Aliens in America, and If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now. She received the Pushcart Prize in Fiction in 1995 for her short story, “My Father’s Chinese Wives.
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Loh, a self-described neurotic, nonachieving, downwardly mobile “Dumpy,” has started to come out of denial over the fact that she does not live in Provence. Not only does she not live in Provence, she doesn’t even live in a nice part of Los Angeles. This upper-lower-middle-class suburb in the sun-swept grid of the San Fernando Valley, consistently ranked one of the worst places to live in America, whose night sky is flamed by a million fast-food neon signs and whose streets are chockablock with carnicerias, taquerias, and pupuserias, will, she’s pretty sure, never be Provence.
In A Year in Van Nuys, we find Sandra, an obscure writer, blocked at page 100 of her Great American Novel — the one that, when finished, will bring her fame, fortune, and the requisite country house in Provence. She’s 35 and she has eyebags like Bert Lahr, a too-rich, too-thin sister who torments her about her lack of initiative, and a $300-an-hour Malibu therapist.
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- PublisherCrown Pub
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0609608126
- ISBN 13 9780609608128
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages234
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