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The Miss America family a novel

Ex-Miss New Jersey Pixie Stocker, realizing her dreams for an all-American family have somehow gone awry, embarks on a quest to start anew after being gifted with a long-buried family secret from her addled grandmother, while her teenage son Ezra tries to develop his own rules for a happy life.

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  • "Ex-Miss New Jersey Pixie Stocker, realizing her dreams for an all-American family have somehow gone awry, embarks on a quest to start anew after being gifted with a long-buried family secret from her addled grandmother, while her teenage son Ezra tries to develop his own rules for a happy life."@en
  • "In 1987 Greenville, Delaware, Ezra Stocker, the teenage son of an insomniac former Miss New Jersey and a gay absentee father, decides to use his summer vacation to set up a list of rules to live by."@en
  • "The Miss America Family In this stunning follow-up to the acclaimed Girl Talk, a fading beauty-pageant veteran and her sixteen-year-old son team up as the delightfully nimble co-chroniclers of one family's soulful, mordantly funny remembrance of things past. With her irreverent evocation of suburban dissolution, Julianna Baggott gives us a fictional world whose emotional complexity and comedic dysfunction closely resemble our own. It's 1987 in Greenville, Delaware. Ezra Stocker is the son of an insomniac ex-Miss New Jersey named Pixie and a gay, absentee father; the stepson of an ex-quarterback dentist with a taste for turtle-patterned golf pants; and the grandson of a superstitious, stroke-addled woman with a passion for birds and some truly odd notions about fish and the family ancestry. He has created for himself a specific goal this summer vacation: to make a list of "Rules to Live By," his own set of guidelines to take him through life. A boy whose chief distinguishing traits include webbed toes and a knack for standardized aptitude tests, Ezra has no reason to expect that by the end of this particular summer, due largely to a doomed romance with a wealthy podiatrist's daughter and a fateful episode with a gun, every one of those rules will be tossed out the window. It's 1987 in Greenville, Delaware, but Pixie Stocker is consumed by the past. When she was Ezra's age, she too sought the secret rules and how-to's for negotiating life and attaining her dream of the all-American family. Pixie had found her answers in the comfortingly black-and-white strictures of Emily Post -- and later in the rigid absolutes of the beauty pageant circuit. Such certainties have long since vanished, replaced by the relentless haunting of her memory, and the ceaseless reverberations of a long-ago act of brutal violation. When Ezra's grandmother, disoriented from her stroke, reveals to her daughter an explosive and longburied family secret, she spurs Pixie toward a series of bizarre and dangerous choices in an endeavor to reclaim her tragic past and, for better or worse, start anew. In the pages of The Miss America Family Julianna Baggott creates as unique a voice -- and as idiosyncratic a sensibility -- as any novelist has managed in years, extending her range and craft with dazzling, high-wire mixtures of absurdity and pathos, hilarity and darkness."@en

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "The Miss America family a novel"@en
  • "THE MISS AMERICA FAMILY"@en
  • "The Miss America family"
  • "Miss Amérique ne pleure jamais"
  • "Wie erschiesse ich meinen Mann? Roman"
  • "The Miss America family : a novel"
  • "The Miss America family : a novel"@en
  • "Wie erschiesse ich meinen Mann? : Roman"

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