Cicely has got problems. Stuck working a crappy job to take care of her deadbeat father, she's living just a step above homelessness in a town ruled by a remote, affluent elite and stricken with a catastrophic outbreak of red tide. But then Cicely makes a friend, perhaps her first, and she starts dreaming of a way out of her predicament. It's a scheme that involves stolen placentas and a dangerous outlaw doula that leads to a confrontation with the malignant forces around her and the mother who abandoned her as a child.In this grim, comic debut novel, author Cooper Levey-Baker tells a bizarre coming-of-age story in prose that is lyrical, gross, tragic, goofy, and maybe even a bit tender.
ISBN: | 9781948692748 |
Publisher: | Madville Publishing LLC |
Imprint: | Madville Publishing |
Published date: | 20 Jan 2022 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 204 |
Weight: | 263g |
Height: | 216mm |
Width: | 140mm |
Spine width: | 12mm |