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O beautiful : a novel Book
Book | First edition. | St. Martin's Press, New York : 2021.

  • 3 of 3 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (Show)
  • 1 of 1 Copy Available at Fort Erie Library System
  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Branch Call Number Location Holdable? Status
Centennial FIC YUN 2021 Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Available
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"Elinor Hanson, a forty-something former model, is struggling to reinvent herself as a freelance writer when she receives an unexpected assignment. Her mentor from grad school offers her a chance to write for a prestigious magazine about the Bakken oil boom in North Dakota. Elinor grew up near the Bakken, raised by an overbearing father and a distant Korean mother who met and married when he was stationed overseas. After decades away from home, Elinor returns to a landscape she hardly recognizes, overrun by tens of thousands of newcomers. Surrounded by roughnecks seeking their fortunes in oil and long-time residents worried about their changing community, Elinor experiences a profound sense of alienation and grief. She rages at the unrelenting male gaze, the locals who still see her as a foreigner, and the memories of her family's estrangement after her mother decided to escape her unhappy marriage, leaving Elinor and her sister behind. The longer she pursues this potentially career-altering assignment, the more her past intertwines with the story she's trying to tell, revealing disturbing new realities that will forever change her and the way she looks at the world"--Provided by publisher.
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  • ISBN: 9781250274328
  • Physical Description: print309 pages
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.
  • Copyright: ©2021

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