To the Birdhouse
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Books › Fiction › Contemporary Women
ISBN: 0374278288 / Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 1990
Alice, a photographer of rare birds, and her maddeningly fastidious mother fight to rid themselves of mom's ex-beau, the unspeakably thuggish Louie Scifo
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Newlywed Alice Brody appears to have the perfect life. The one fly in the ointment is her mother’s detestable boyfriend, Louie Scifo: champion of incredibly bad taste and a bona fide stalker. After Alice’s mother cuts him loose, Louie’s determination to win back her love casts Alice’s whole family into disarray. So Alice embarks on a mission to rid her mother of Louie once and for all, in this rambunctious comedy of manners that is at once “dizzying, hilarious, authentic, and original” (Washington Post Book World).
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