I Am Lemonade Lucy: A Novel - Softcover

Womack, Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1684332648 ISBN 13: 9781684332649

Publisher: Black Rose Writing, 2019

Synopsis

Azza Amari, a headstrong, hijab-wearing international student flees her dangerous life in the Paris ghetto to enroll at staid Northwestern Ohio State College.

As the twentysomething refugee navigates her way among the commuter school’s working-class environs in tiny Fremont, Ohio, Azza comes into the orbit of 17-year-old Kip Beckelhymer, a precocious, history-obsessed senior trying to win back the love of Birdie Hudgins, his mercurial high-school sweetheart.

Together, Kip and Azza discover an extraordinary kinship. All the while, the conservative hamlet—and especially Birdie—struggles to come to grips with what seems like the whole of the Islamic world has intruded into their workaday lives. Things come to a head when Kip and Azza find themselves on an unusual treasure hunt. Their whimsical search takes on deadly serious overtones as the strange duo inadvertently finds themselves peeling back the corrosive layers of cowardice and hate that linger just below the surface of their society in the Heartland.

About this title

About the Author

Kenneth Womack is the author of three previous novels, John Doe No. 2 and the Dreamland Motel, The Restaurant at the End of the World, and Playing the Angel. He has written several books about the Beatles, including Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles, The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four, and, most recently, an acclaimed two-volume biography about the life of Beatles producer George Martin. He is Dean of the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University, where he also serves as Professor of English. He lives in West Long Branch, New Jersey, with his wife Jeanine.

Review

"Readers looking for an amusing diversion with some serious heart to it will find that I Am Lemonade Lucy! fits the bill nicely." –IndieReader

“...a compelling and provocative tale, infused with humor, suspense, friendship, and, ultimately, hope.” –Jack Ford, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist and author of Chariot on the Mountain

“Womack pens a driving tale that explores the pervasive xenophobia that threatens to divide our melting pot of a country while offering a whimsical mystery on the side to keep things from getting too serious.” —Mike Farragher, author of 9 Rooms in Ballyglunin

Edition details

• Publisher: Black Rose Writing
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1684332648
• ISBN 13: 9781684332649
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 253