- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women, Divorced women, Brothers and sisters, Camping
"A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a disaster.
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Contemporary, classical in form, effortless and intimate.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Katherine Center
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, St. Martin's Griffin
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781250047304
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Katherine Center is an American author of contemporary fiction. Center was born and raised in Afton Oaks, Houston, Texas. She graduated from St. John's School and from Vassar College. She won the Vassar College Fiction Prize while a student. She received her M.A. in fiction from the University of Houston, where she was the co-editor of the literary fiction magazine, *Gulf Coast*. Center is the author of several books, which she has called "bittersweet comic novels." Her first novel, *The Bright Side of Disaster* (2006), was optioned by Varsity Pictures, and her sixth, *How to Walk Away* (2018), was a New York Times bestseller. Center's 2019 novel *Things You Save in a Fire* was a New York Ti
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