num_pages: 143
description: In the half-lit world of a broken home, Jo grows up afraid of the shadows and desperate for company. By age seventeen, she has learned to build her own happiness, and her fantasies of love fuel perilous experiments with drugs and sex, and a search for the mother who abandoned her years earlier. Ultimately, it is Jo's revelation about her mother's own demons that brings a bittersweet reconciliation of childhood dreams and adult reality.
language: English
title: The Pollen Room
titlecomplete: The Pollen Room
genres: Fiction, School, Novels, German Literature, Germany, Literature, Female Authors, 20th Century, Contemporary
ratings_count: 587
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur
category: 3sat-Stipendium, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Aspekte-Literaturpreis
publisher: Simon & Schuster