The Wonder Bread Summer
- Authors: Jessica Anya Blau
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- Type: Novel
- Genres: Literary fiction
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- Rating: 3.6 based on 281 reviews
- Release Date: May 28, 2013
- Print length: 288 pages (Paperback)
About the book
Jessica Anya Blau, author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, delivers another darkly hilarious, heartbreaking coming-of-age novel with Wonder Bread Summer.
In The Wonder Bread Summer, loosely based on Alice in Wonderland, 20-year-old Allie Dodgson has adventures that rival those Alice had down the rabbit hole. Or those of Weeds' Nancy Botwin.
Allison is working at a dress shop to help pay for college. The dress shop turns out to be a front for drug dealers. And Allison ends up on the run - with a Wonder Bread bag full of cocaine.
With a hit man after her, Allison wants the help of her parents. But there's a problem: Her mom took off when Allison was eight; her dad moves so often Allison that doesn't even have his phone number....
Set in 1980s California, The Wonder Bread Summer is a wickedly funny and fresh caper that's sure to please fans of Christopher Moore, Carl Hiaasen, and Marcy Dermansky.
Praise for this book:
"A fearless writer, capable of anything and everything." - Kevin Wilson