Finding Perfect: Keeping It Together, Inch by Inch

Swartz, Elly

ISBN 10: 0374303126 / ISBN 13: 9780374303129

Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 2016

About this Item

First edition, 2016, stated; first printing, full number line. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page: "To the kids of F-- / Always Be You! / Shine brightly--Happy reading / Elly Swartz." The author's debut novel. The book is square and unmarked; top corners and spine ends bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $16.99); edgewear at spine ends and corners; Brodart protected.

Seller Inventory # 010450

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Finding Perfect: Keeping It Together, Inch by Inch
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374303126
• ISBN 13: 9780374303129
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

To twelve-year-old Molly Nathans, perfect is:

―The number four
―The tip of a newly sharpened No. 2 pencil
―A crisp white pad of paper
―Her neatly aligned glass animal figurines

What’s not perfect is Molly’s mother leaving the family to take a faraway job with the promise to return in one year. Molly knows that promises are sometimes broken, so she hatches a plan to bring her mother home: Win the Lakeville Middle School Poetry Slam Contest. The winner is honored at a fancy banquet with white tablecloths. Molly is sure her mother would never miss that. Right…?

But as time passes, writing and reciting slam poetry become harder. Actually, everything becomes harder as new habits appear, and counting, cleaning, and organizing are not enough to keep Molly's world from spinning out of control. In this fresh-voiced debut novel, one girl learns there is no such thing as perfect.

About the Author

Elly Swartz grew up in Yardley, Pennsylvania, where she lived a happy childhood filled with laughs, family dinners, and crooked birthday cakes. She studied psychology at Boston University and received a law degree from Georgetown University School of Law. The mother of two grown sons, Elly now lives in Massachusetts with her husband. Finding Perfect was her debut novel.