Nicotine A Novel

Nell Zink

eBook - 2016

One of Huffington Post's 20 Fall 2016 Books You'll Need for Your BookshelfFeatured in New York Magazine's Fall 2016 PreviewAn Entertainment Weekly Fall 2016 Must-ReadFeatured in LitHub's 2016 Bookseller's Fall PreviewFeatured in The Guardian's Fall 2016 Books Preview: The Best American WritingFrom the “wonderfully talented” (Dwight Garner, New York Times) author of Mislaid and The Wallcreeper comes a fierce and audaciously funny new novel, dazzling in its energy and ambition: a story of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian father's childhood home. Recent business school graduate Penny Baker has rebelled against her family her whole l...ife-by being the conventional one. Her mother, Amalia, was a member of an Amazonian tribe called the Kogi; her much older father, Norm, long ago attained cult-like deity status among a certain group of aging hippies while operating a... more