Mislaid
Nell Zink
‘Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingenue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The two are mismatched from the start–she’s a lesbian, he’s gay–but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son behind. Worried that Lee will have her committed for her erratic behavior, Peggy goes underground, adopting an African American persona for her and her daughter. They squat in a house in an African-American settlement, eventually moving to a housing project where no one questions their true racial identities. As Peggy and Lee’s children grow up, they must contend with diverse emotional issues: Byrdie deals with his father’s compulsive honesty; while Karen struggles with her mother’s lies–she knows neither her real age, nor that she is ‘white,’ nor that she has any other family. Years later, a minority scholarship lands Karen at the University of Virginia, where Byrdie is in his senior year. Eventually the long lost siblings will meet, setting off a series of misunderstandings and culminating in a comedic finale worthy of Shakespeare’–
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Details
| ISBN | 9780062364777 |
| Genre | Family; Humor |
| Publication Date | May-15 |
| Publisher | Ecco Press |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 256 |
| LoC Classification | PS3626.I55 .M57 2015 |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Subject | Brothers And Sisters – Fiction; Dysfunctional Families – Fiction; Family Life – Fiction; Fathers And Sons – Fiction; Mother-daughter Relationship – Fiction; Mothers and daughters – Fiction; Passing (Identity) – Fiction; Race Awareness – Fiction; Runaway Adults – Fiction; Runaway Wives – Fiction; Virginia – Fiction |
| BookID | 15219 |
