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Title Statement | Age of consent: a novel / Marti Leimbach. |
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Author | Leimbach, Marti, 1963- |
Publication | New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday,[2016]©2016 |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 320 pages |
ISBN | 0385540876 9780385540872 |
Other Number | 2897501 |
Summary | "Thirty years ago, June was a young widow with a hopeless crush on a Craig Kirtz, a disc jockey at a local rock station. To her surprise, the two struck up a friendship that seemed headed for something more. But it was June's thirteen-year-old daughter, Bobbie, whom Craig had wanted all along. Bobbie thought her secret life--the sex, the drugs, the illicit relationship itself--could remain safely buried in the past. But when she discovers that Craig had similarly pursued any number of other young girls, Bobbie returns home after a long absence with one purpose in mind: to bring Craig to trial. Her decision is greeted with mixed feelings. Some people think that bringing charges against someone for a crime committed so many years ago is unjustified. She's called a "middle-aged woman with a vendetta." She's accused of waging war against her own family. June remembers things differently from the way Bobbie does. Craig insists he has done nothing wrong. But the past has a way of revealing itself, and some relationships lay dormant through the years, ready to stir to life at the slightest provocation. While their traumatic history is relived in the courtroom, Bobbie and June must face the choices they made and try to make sense of the pain they endured while seeking justice at long last."--Provided by publisher. |
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By Topic | Mothers and daughters--Fiction |
Life change events--Fiction | |
Teenage girls--Fiction--Sexual behavior | |
By Genre | Domestic fiction |
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