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Divided between the worlds of her secure ex-flamenco dancer mother's family and her father's exciting family, young Inez Ruin seeks to achieve a precarious balance in her California home throughout the course of the 1970s. By the author of My Last Movie Star. 35,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Martha Sherrill is the author of The Buddha from Brooklyn, a work of nonfiction, and My Last Movie Star, a novel.
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*Starred Review* Inez Garcia Ruin is a self-described "baton of a girl," passing from one divorced parent to the other--from her mother, Connie, a former flamenco dancer turned realtor in Southern California, to her glamorous father, Paul, something of a fixture in San Francisco society and scion of the old-money Ruin family. Set in California in the 1970s, this jaunty, beautifully written coming-of-age story is packed with larger-than-life Ruins--not only rakish father Paul but also half-brother Whitman, adventurous, resourceful, and perhaps doomed; redoubtable grandmother Marguerite, who teaches Inez how to ride, serve a proper tea, and understand that the way you do one thing is the way you do everything; and a mob of Kennedyesque cousins swarming around the family beach house in Laguna. And then there is Inez herself, moving between two worlds and belonging to neither, trying to grow up at a time and in a place so laid-back the point is not to try. Sherrill's re-creation of California in the '70s is impeccable, and her story of how a girl trapped in a theatrical family manages to transform herself from an observer into the star of her own life is absolutely irresistible. Michael Cart
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- PublisherPenguin Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1594200807
- ISBN 13 9781594200809
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages336
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