Title: Cool for you
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 2000
Description: *Cool For You* is a darkly comic novel that traces the downbeat progress of an Irish American girl through a series of stuttering efforts to leave home. *Cool For You*'s tough girl narrator wants to be an astronaut. Instead, she becomes a poet and takes us on a ferocious tour of, low-end schools, pathetic jobs, and unmade beds. This is a book hell-bent on telling the truth about poor women, how they do and do not get out of the hands of the family and the State.
Subjects: Fiction, Young women, Young women in fiction, Boston (mass.), fiction, Young women, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, general, Irish americans, fiction, Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction Finalist
Places: Boston (Mass.)