Author: Albanese, Laurie

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Blue Suburbia: Almost a Memoir

By: Albanese, Laurie

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Seller ID: 9780060565633

ISBN-13: 9780060565633

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Blue Suburbia is a searing memoir so fresh, original, and honest that it will break your heart and renew your faith in the human spirit.With each spare stroke of her pen, Laurie Lico Albanese paints a vivid portrait of the blue-collar landscape of her childhood -- rusted swing sets, auto body shops, greasy hands, home improvements -- taking readers along for the wild, treacherous ride that leads to her escape. Her mother may stand silently at the sink year after year, or lie in the basement weeping, but Albanese is determined to flee the deadening certainty of her parents' lives. Her story doe...
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