- Life on other planets, Fiction, Sexual behavior, Girls
The heroine is fourteen-year-old Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just as her family flees a postapocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet.
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Grave, bleak, overwhelming and open-ended.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Jonathan Lethem
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 280
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Faber and Faber, Vintage Contemporaries
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780571205943
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