Category: General Fiction, Novel
Language: EnglishKeywords: Coming of Age
Written by Cordelia Strube
Read by Angela Gothos
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Lemon has three mothers: a biological one sheâs never met, her adopted fatherâs suicidal ex, and Drew, a school principal who hasnât left the house since she was stabbed by a student. She has one deadbeat dad, one young cancer-riddled protégé, and two friends, the school tramp and a depressed poet.
Figuring the numbers are against her, Lemon just canât be bothered trying to fit in. She spurns fashion, television, and even the mall. She reads Mary Wollstonecraft and gets pissed off that Jane Eyre is such a wimp. Meanwhile, the adults in her life are all mired in self-centeredness, and the other kids are getting high, beating each other up in parks, and trying to outsex one another. High school is misery, a trial run for an unhappy adulthood of bloated waistlines, bad sex, contradictions, and inequities, and nothing guidance counselor Blecher can say will convince Lemon otherwise.
But making the choice to opt out of sex and violence and cancer and disappointment doesnât mean that these things donât find you. It will be up to Lemon if she can survive them with her usual cavalier aplomb.
Audio Release Date:
October 18 2013
9 hrs and 30 mins
Lemon has three mothers: a biological one sheâs never met, her adopted fatherâs suicidal ex, and Drew, a school principal who hasnât left the house since she was stabbed by a student. She has one deadbeat dad, one young cancer-riddled protégé, and two friends, the school tramp and a depressed poet.
Figuring the numbers are against her, Lemon just canât be bothered trying to fit in. She spurns fashion, television, and even the mall. She reads Mary Wollstonecraft and gets pissed off that Jane Eyre is such a wimp. Meanwhile, the adults in her life are all mired in self-centeredness, and the other kids are getting high, beating each other up in parks, and trying to outsex one another. High school is misery, a trial run for an unhappy adulthood of bloated waistlines, bad sex, contradictions, and inequities, and nothing guidance counselor Blecher can say will convince Lemon otherwise.
But making the choice to opt out of sex and violence and cancer and disappointment doesnât mean that these things donât find you. It will be up to Lemon if she can survive them with her usual cavalier aplomb.
Audio Release Date:
October 18 2013
9 hrs and 30 mins