Tattoo Girl - Softcover

Stevens, Brooke

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ISBN 10: 0312269102 ISBN 13: 9780312269104

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2001

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Tattoo girl is an evocative story of perseverance and discovery in the face of insanity and corruption. A young girl is found alone in an Ohio mall long after closing hours, unable to speak, nd covered head to foot in fish-scale tattoos. Her identity presents an enigma. She is adopted and named Emma by Lucy, a former circus fat lady. Warned that Emma maybe in in danger from whoever gave her the mysterious tattoos, Lucy goes in search of Emma's real identity, a quest that leads Lucy to a confrontation with the demons haunting her past.
Tattoo Girl is the story of a woman and her adopted daughter, who ndertake a difficult journey into salvation's dark heart in order to rediscover their identities--identities that were crushed by evil men. By turns surreal , nightmarish, and heartwarming, Tattoo Girl is ultimately an affirmation of the powerful bond between two people overcoming adversity.

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Tattoo Girl is the story of a woman and her adopted daughter, who undertake a difficult journey into salvation's dark heart in order to rediscover their identities--identities that were crushed by evil men. By turns surreal, nightmarish, and heart-warming, Tattoo Girl is ultimately an affirmation of the powerful bond between two people overcoming adversity.

About the Author:

Brooke Stevens has held numerous jobs across the country. He’s worked on a shrimp boat off of Fort Meyers, Florida, as a bartender in New Orleans, as a steam locomotive engineer on the Mt. Washington Cog Railroad, as movie programmer at the Bleecker Street Cinema in New York, as a horse groom in Ringling Brothers Circus, a screenplay writer and a creative writing teacher at Sarah Lawrence Collge. His novels have been translated into French, German and Japanese. They have also been published in the UK. Please visit his website www.brookestevens.com.

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