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At twenty-seven, Lucy knows everything about coffee, comic books, and Gus (the polar bear at the Central Park Zoo), and she possesses a rare gift for drawing. But since she suffered a traumatic brain injury at the age of three, she has had trouble relating to most people. She s also uncommonly messy, woefully disorganized, and incapable of holding down a regular job. When unexpected circumstances force her out of the comfortable and protective Jewish home where she was raised and into a cramped studio apartment in New York City with her college-age younger brother, she must adapt to an entirely different life one with no safety net. Over the course of a challenging summer, Lucy is forced to discover that she has more strengths than she herself knew."
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Piece of Mind is animated by sense and innocence. Michelle Adelman has written a truly charming novel full of humor and warmth. Sex and drugs and polar bears abound. --Cathleen Schine, author of Fin and Lady and The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Piece of Mind is compulsively readable, built around a set of relatable, engaging characters and a compelling central problem for its protagonist. --Liz Moore, author of Heft
Piece of Mind is such a beautiful debut, one that will indelibly imprint the reader with Lucy s unique voice and vision. She channels the raw states of grief and joy and bewilderment with such a pure-hearted intensity. Her New York is a flickery frontier, exciting and scary, where she toggles between states of numbness and excruciating sensitivity. Michelle Adelman is so articulate about what we know and cannot say, what we can barely stand to know, and what we bravely face each day as individuals in families, together and alone. --Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!"
Lucy s narrative is sensitive, witty, and illuminating excellently draw. Her journey and the evolution of her relationships offer a rare glance at the unknowable."
A moving story of grief, resilience, and self-actualization Adelman fully inhabits Lucy s voice, and the resulting tale is as realistic as it is uplifting."
Unique a candid exploration of self-doubt, the bonds of family, and the fear of the unknown."
Tender sharply real."
Arresting....smart, honest and funny.
Adelman beautifully conveys Lucy's idiosyncratic voice and outlook on the world...[Adelman] resists pat, too-easy endings, and instead focuses on realistically depicting Lucy's strengths and weaknesses, humor, failings and tentative steps toward believing in her own capabilities.
About the Author:
Piece of Mind is compulsively readable, built around a set of relatable, engaging characters and a compelling central problem for its protagonist. --Liz Moore, author of Heft
Piece of Mind is such a beautiful debut, one that will indelibly imprint the reader with Lucy s unique voice and vision. She channels the raw states of grief and joy and bewilderment with such a pure-hearted intensity. Her New York is a flickery frontier, exciting and scary, where she toggles between states of numbness and excruciating sensitivity. Michelle Adelman is so articulate about what we know and cannot say, what we can barely stand to know, and what we bravely face each day as individuals in families, together and alone. --Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!"
Lucy s narrative is sensitive, witty, and illuminating excellently draw. Her journey and the evolution of her relationships offer a rare glance at the unknowable."
A moving story of grief, resilience, and self-actualization Adelman fully inhabits Lucy s voice, and the resulting tale is as realistic as it is uplifting."
Unique a candid exploration of self-doubt, the bonds of family, and the fear of the unknown."
Tender sharply real."
Arresting....smart, honest and funny.
Adelman beautifully conveys Lucy's idiosyncratic voice and outlook on the world...[Adelman] resists pat, too-easy endings, and instead focuses on realistically depicting Lucy's strengths and weaknesses, humor, failings and tentative steps toward believing in her own capabilities.
Michelle Adelman has an MFA in Writing from Columbia University, and BS and MS degrees in Journalism from Northwestern University. Her work has appeared in Bustle, Fiction Writers Review, Extract(s), and elsewhere. She lives in San Diego.
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1410490149
- ISBN 13 9781410490148
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages393
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