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Mislaid Author: Nell Zink

ISBN: 9780008100575 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 304 Published: 26 January 2016 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 12.9 x 2.4 Description:

A sharply observed, mordantly funny, and startlingly original novel from an exciting, unconventional new voice-the author of the acclaimedThe Wallcreeper-about the making and unmaking of the American family that lays bare all of our assumptions about race and racism, sexuality and desire.

Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingenue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The two are mismatched from the start-she's a lesbian, he's gay-but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son behind.

Worried that Lee will have her committed for her erratic behavior, Peggy goes underground, adopting an African American persona for her and her daughter. They squat in a house in an African-American settlement, eventually moving to a housing project where no one questions their true racial identities. As Peggy and Lee's children grow up, they must contend with diverse emotional issues: Byrdie deals with his father's compulsive ...

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