Heavy Cream - Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

"A dazzling, unconventional coming-of-age story that charts, with precision and humor, the many ways to be a woman. The New York Times A magic spell of a book. Julie Buntin Heavy Cream is funny, deeply felt, and positively effervescent, brimming with life and color and textureI was repeatedly struck by its humor, its compassion, and its candor. Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had Abandoned by her mother in New York, sixteen-year-old Geraldine falls under the influence of three women, each seeking to form her in their image, in this wildly perceptive (Stefan Merrill Block, New York Times bestselling author of Homeschooled) coming-of-age story from the bestselling author of Alice Sadie Celine.For Gerry, growing up on the road has always been her mother and her, locked in dysfunction. Homeschooled, she hasnt learned much math. Instead, her mother has taught her how to spend the day at a motels swimming pool without being a guest and how to dodge paying extra for the chicken on a Caesar salad. Gerry learns how to pass and adapt, but when she is abandoned in the city, she finds herself in the care of three very different women, each intent on shaping her into competing and incompatible selves. First, there is her mothers old college friend Bonnie, who lives in a world of country clubs and chintzy domesticity. Then there is Nell, her mothers estranged sister and a successful artist, who insists on ambition and self-invention. And final
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