Nell Zink, "Nicotine"
October 18, 2016
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as posted by the channelIn the slightly absurdist world of Zink’s third novel, Penny Baker’s complicated coming-of-age takes her from her shamanistic father’s new age healing center to business school then to her grandparents’ house in New Jersey. Renamed “Nicotine” and part of the Community Housing Action network, the old family home has become the headquarters for smokers’ rights activists. As wild, funny, and provocative as Zink’s take on conservation in The Wallcreeper or her Shakespearian look at race and gender in Mislaid, this novel is a sharp satire of alternative lifestyles from the hippie era to today’s identity politics.
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