The Miss America Family
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 074342297X / Publisher: Washington Square Press, February 2003
In 1987 Greenville, Delaware, Ezra Stocker, the teenage son of an insomniac former Miss New Jersey and a gay absentee father, decides to use his summer vacation to set up a list of rules to live by.
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Pixie Kitchy was once Miss New Jersey. Now she's married to a dentist, an ex-quarterback in turtled golf pants. Her ten-year-old daughter, Mitzie, wears Bo-peep pincurls and twirls baton. Her sixteen-year-old son, Ezra, the person who knows her best, is caught up in his fling with the podiatrist's daughter. And Pixie is consumed by the past. She confides, "I was a housewife, and I became dangerous. Sometimes it's the only way possible to regain footing in the world." In this high-wire mixture of absurdity and pathos, hilarity and darkness, one American family finds out that there is no such thing as the perfect American family, and, for better or for worse, they come together and start anew.
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