Caring Is Creepy: A Novel - Softcover

Zimmerman, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569479771 ISBN 13: 9781569479773

Publisher: Soho Press Inc, 2012

Synopsis

In Georgia USA, 15 year old Lynn Marie Sugrue is having a difficult summer. Her mother has become involved in her pill-popping boyfriend's petty criminal activites, so she takes refuge in an online friendship with a troubled Marine, Logan. When he comes to visit, he's forced to stay over in a storage space only accessible by her and is listed AWOL. Realising she has found something in her life she can finally control, she takes his clothes, car keys and has his car towed. The two plotlines intersect with explosive consequences.

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Product Description

In rural Georgia, 15-year-old Lynn Marie Sugrue is trying to make it through a difficult summer. She finds refuge in online flirtations, eventually meeting up with a young marine called Logan and invites him home. When he's forced to stay over and is subsequently listed as AWOL, she realises he's the one thing she can control.

Review

Praise for Caring is Creepy

Alex Award Winner

"Lynn's voice is authentically sardonic and compelling.... The intersections of Lynn's and Logan's story line with the consequences of Hayes's shady dealings are consistently exciting."
--Publishers Weekly

"David Zimmerman has written a beautifully menacing novel. I found it impossible to stop reading--as teenage girls flirt with danger online, an AWOL soldier hides out in a closet, and drug deals go dead wrong--and you will too, as the danger steadily escalates, the sentences unspooling like a detonator line that sizzles toward an explosive, unforgettable ending."
--Benjamin Percy, author of The Wilding and Refresh, Refresh

"This story is sweet, funny, sad, infuriating, and all too real."
--Tulsa Books Examiner

"An engrossing and unforgettable tale based on actual events.... Those who can empathize with flawed characters in dire situations will not be able to put this book down."
--Library Journal

"When Zimmerman's characters get dirty, you feel the grit, and when they hurt, you feel the sting." --Ames Tribune

"[A]n insidious and deceiving but often sweet summertime ensnarement that is alternatively a tangled web and tender trap." --Blogcritics.org

Praise for David Zimmerman's previous novel, The Sandbox

"[A] gripping first novel."
--The New York Times Book Review

"[A] remarkable debut.... Zimmerman is a talent to watch."
--Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW

"Zimmerman adroitly depicts [Iraq's] isolated moonscape--a place as liable to produce hallucinations and heat exhaustion as it is to churn up sandstorms that last for days."
--Los Angeles Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Soho Press Inc
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1569479771
• ISBN 13: 9781569479773
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 326