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Life Is Funny

Life Is Funny

Life Is Funny
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Life Is Funny Trade paperback trade paperback - 2002

by E.R. Frank

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From the outside they're just a group of urban teenagers. But from the inside, they're some of the most complex people readers will ever meet.

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Puffin, April 2002. Trade Paperback Trade Paperback. Good. Creases to the spine with light edgewear to cover. Pages clean and unmarked. Crease to lower corner. All Orders Shipped With Tracking And Delivery Confirmation Numbers.
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  • Title Life Is Funny
  • Author E.R. Frank
  • Binding Trade Paperback Trade Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 263
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Puffin, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date April 2002
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 359891
  • ISBN 9780142300831 / 0142300837
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.47 x 5.48 x 0.72 in (21.51 x 13.92 x 1.83 cm)
  • Reading level 830
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Topical: Coming of Age
    • Topical: Friendship
  • Library of Congress subjects Family problems, Interpersonal relations
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001048436
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

From the outside, they're simply a group of urban teenagers. But from the inside, they're some of the most complex people you'll ever meet. There's Eric, fiercely protective of his brother Mickey-but he has a secret that holds together his past and future. Sonia, struggling to live the life of a good Muslim girl in a foreign America. Gingerbread and Keisha, who fall in love despite themselves. Life Is Funny strips away the defenses of one group of teenagers living today, right now-and shows their unbearably real lives.

"First novelist Frank breaks new ground with a realistic, lyrical novel about eleven teens in Brooklyn now . . . Their talk is painful, rough, sexy, funny, fearful, furious, gentle. Each chapter, each vignette within a chapter, builds to its own climax, and the stories weave together to surprise you." (Booklist, starred review)

"An astounding first effort." (Kirkus Reviews, pointer review)

Media reviews

Citations

  • Kliatt, 07/01/2002, Page 18
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/25/2002, Page 0
  • PW Notes and Reprints, 03/25/2002, Page 67

About the author

E. R. Frank is an author, psychotherapist, and social worker. A native of Richmond, Virginia, Frank attended Vassar College, Hunter Graduate School of Social Work, and New York's Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. She is the author of five novels: Life Is Funny, Dime, America, Wrecked, and Friction. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children.
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