Phoebe Will Destroy You
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
From the author of Girl, Boy, and Paranoid Park comes a new novel about the obsessive vortex of falling in love in an impossible time and place.
The summer I was seventeen I met this girl…
Nick has the best of moms and the worst of moms. On the upside, she’s a distinguished professor and bestselling author. On the downside, she’s a serious alcoholic, with no clue how to relate to her son or husband.
Nick, meanwhile, has finished his junior year and needs a break from his stressful home life. What better place to spend the summer than Seaside, Oregon, a sleepy beach town where he can chill out, meet girls, and work at his Uncle’s car wash.
Enter local legend, Phoebe Garnet. She’s funny, sexy, but dangerously self-destructive. Suddenly Nick is more in love, more obsessed, more heartsick than he’s ever been in his life.
Why does Nick love her so much? Will he survive this obsession? And who can he turn to for help?
From the author of the classic novels Girl and Paranoid Park comes a story of the joy, the pain, and the madness of growing up.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Things have been tense at 17-year-old Nick's home since his alcoholic mother, a renowned college professor, has returned from rehab. So, Nick is relieved when his father arranges for him to go away for the summer, even if it's only to a "hick" beach town to stay with his aunt, uncle, and cousins, which couldn't be more different from the college town of Eugene, Ore., where Nick was raised. It doesn't take long, though, for him to settle into his job at his uncle's car wash and start partying with some of the locals. After he becomes attracted to Phoebe, a slightly older girl who carries an aura of mystery, his interest turns to obsession, and Nick finds himself on a slippery slope, holding fast to romantic fantasies that can never come true. With a cinematographer's eye, Nelson (Recovery Road) captures the essence of small-town life, as well as the various forms of escape people use to forget their desperation. Nick's inner transformations are gradual and realistic, allowing readers to understand how significantly he has been impacted by his troubled home life and to empathize with his struggle to navigate overwhelming emotions. Ages 14 up.
