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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Synthetic Bi Products

Synthetic Bi Products

Patterson, Sparrow L.

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ISBN10: 1888451181
ISBN13: 9781888451184
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Aug 1 2001
Pages: 350
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.82 Depth: 8.06
Language: English
Awards: Lambda Literary Awards

--Nominated for a Lambda Literary Award (2001)

Patterson's sharp-eyed, disaffected but hopeful teenaged heroine Orleigh wends her way through a Midwestern suburban wasteland of Gen-Y anomie, dead-end jobs, petty crime, sex, and drugs, until she is saved by the transformative power of love. An affecting, fresh first novel. --Kate Christensen, author of In the Drink

To call Sparrow L. Patterson's Synthetic Bi Products a coming-of-age novel is like referring to Bright Lights, Big City as a book about fact checking. Patterson has taken a perhaps familiar story--one of confused kids on the verge of adulthood, wandering aimlessly through shopping malls and on the streets of Chicago and LA--and made it her own, revitalizing her themes with her vibrant voice and prose. Her book makes the reader rethink a world they might have thought they had known by revealing the complex layers of humanity that exist beneath the commonplace. This feat is complemented by Patterson's engaging central character, a tough, bisexual young woman as uncompromising as the novel itself. This is a masterful debut. --Henry Flesh, author of Massage

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