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Snowflake : a novel / Louise Nealon.

Snow flake (other title)
Nealon, Louise, (author.).

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Eighteen-year-old Debbie was raised on her family's rural dairy farm, forty minutes and a world away from Dublin. She lives with her mother, Maeve, a skittish woman who takes to her bed for days on end, claims not to know who Debbie's father is, and believes her dreams are prophecies. Rounding out their small family is Maeve's brother Billy, who lives in a caravan behind their house, drinks too much, and likes to impersonate famous dead writers online. Though they may have their quirks, the Whites' fierce love for one another is never in doubt. But Debbie's life is changing. Earning a place at Trinity College Dublin, she commutes to her classes a few days a week. Outside the sheltered bubble of her childhood for the first time, Debbie finds herself both overwhelmed and disappointed by her fellow students and the pace and anonymity of city life. While the familiarity of the farm offers comfort, Debbie still finds herself pulling away from it. Yet just as she begins to ponder the possibilities the future holds, a resurgence of strange dreams raises her fears that she may share Maeve's fate. Then a tragic accident upends the family's equilibrium, and Debbie discovers her next steps may no longer be hers to choose.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063073937
  • ISBN: 0063073935
  • Physical Description: 328 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First United States edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021].

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Teenage girls > Fiction.
Young women > Ireland > Fiction.
College students > Fiction.
Women college students > Ireland > Fiction.
Dysfunctional families > Fiction.
Rural families > Ireland > Fiction.
Life change events > Fiction.
Depression, Mental > Fiction.
Self-realization in women > Fiction.
Dairy farms > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Dublin (Ireland) > Fiction.
Kildare (Ireland : County) > Fiction.
Genre:
Coming-of-age fiction
Domestic fiction.
Novels.

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