History Lesson for Girls
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ISBN: 0143111906 / Publisher: Penguin Books, June 2007
Moving with her parents to an affluent Connecticut town in the mid-1970s, thirteen-year-old Alison Glass struggles to fit into her new school and forges an unlikely friendship with a popular girl who shares Alison's love of horses.
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In her follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel The Anxiety of Everyday Objects, Aurelie Sheehan presents a moving coming-of-age story set in the disturbingly reckless and often hilariously tacky 1970s. In 1975, Alison Glass, age thirteen, moves to Connecticut with her bohemian parents and her horse, Jazz. Shy, observant, and in a back brace for scoliosis, Alison finds strength in an unlikely friendship with Kate Hamilton, the charismatic but troubled daughter of an egomaniacal New Age guru and his substance-loving wife. Seeking refuge from the chaos in their lives, the girls escape into the world of their horses. Rich in humor and heartbreak, History Lesson for Girls is an elegy to a friendship that meant everything.
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