Among Other Things I've Taken Up Smoking

Critically acclaimed by reviewers across the country Aoibheann Sweeney's beautifully written debut novel is a story of the profound human need for intimacy. For Miranda the adolescence spent in her fog-shrouded Maine home has been stark and isolated-alone with her troubled father a man consumed with his work translating Ovid's <i>Metamorphoses</i> her mother mysteriously gone from their lives. Now having graduated from high school Miranda's father arranges for her to stay with old friends in Manhattan and she embarks on a journey that will open up her father's past and her own world in ways she cannot begin to imagine.