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ISBN 978-0-573-66385-7Catherine Trieschmann 3fDramatic ComedyFourteen year old Laney arrives in Oxford, Mississippi with a twisted back, a mother in crisis and a burning desire to be writer. When she befriends Maribel Purdy, a fervent believer in the power of Jesus Christ to save her from the humiliations of high school, Laney embarks on a hilarious spiritual and sexual journey that challenges her mother’s secular worldview and threatens to tear their fragile relationship apart.
CHARACTERSLaney Waters - 14, has dystonia, which causes one of her shoulders to draw up, as though she has a slightly hunched back.
Elise Waters - 40s, Laney’s mother
Maribel Purdy - 16, Laney’s friend, chubby and radiant
“The work of a big accomplished writer’s voice…a gem of a discovery.”
-The New York Times
“Gorgeous almost beyond belief.”
-The London Times
“This is a wonderfully neat play, at once simple and complex, grappling with big issues - matters of faith, fantasy and the flesh - while keeping its sneakers firmly planted on the suburban topsoil of adolescent angst and domestic frictions.”
- The Daily Telegraph
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