Oona

by Alice Lyons

Book Overview

In Alice Lyons' implosive first novel, Oona, child of first generation immigrants, lives in an affluent New Jersey suburb where conspicuous consumption and white privilege prevail. A silence surrounding death extends to the family home where Oona's mother lies dying of cancer. As her inner life goes into shutdown, Oona has her first encounters with sex, drugs and other adolescent rites of passage. What does a voice alienated from itself sound like?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184351771X
• ISBN13: 9781843517719
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Lilliput Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.4"