num_pages: 240
description: In Alaska 1970 being a teenager here isnt like being a teenager anywhere else. Ruth has a secret that she cant hide forever. Dora wonders if she can ever truly escape where she comes from even when good luck strikes. Alyce is trying to reconcile her desire to dance with the life shes always known on her familys fishing boat. Hank and his brothers decide its safer to run away than to stay homeuntil one of them ends up in terrible danger. Four very different lives are about to become entangled.
language: English
title: The Smell of Other People's Houses
publisher: Wendy Lamb Books