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Swanna in Love

By: Jennifer Belle
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
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It’s the summer of 1982 and fourteen-year-old Swanna Swain is the only one left at camp. The place is a ghost town by the time her mother Val finally shows up six hours late—stoned and radiant—in a Ford pickup driven by Borislav, her new young Russian lover. Assuming she is headed home to her air-conditioned Upper West Side apartment, Swanna and her lovable younger brother Madding are instead dragged to Vermont—to an artist colony where kids are not welcome and they are forced to sleep in the back of the truck, while Val is cozy inside the house with the Russian.

Then Swanna meets Dennis, a handsome married father of two, at a bowling alley, and, knowing a thing or two about seduction from Judy Blume, her best friend at camp, and her own parents’ many affairs, she sets out to convince Dennis to help her. But love seldom obeys rules, and even a tough, smart city girl like Swanna might not be able to handle falling in love.

Best-selling novelist Jennifer Belle returns with a kind of inverse Lolita that explores adolescent desire from the girl’s point of view. In turns hilarious and wildly shocking, Swanna in Love will keep your feathers ruffled and the moments gliding by.

©2024 Jennifer Belle (P)2024 Recorded Books Coming of Age Fiction Family Life Genre Fiction Witty Literature & Fiction Funny Historical Fiction

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Very sharp and witty for something dealing with such dark themes. A clever, heartbreaking. engaging and maddening novel. Sophie Amoss does a fantastic job.

Compelling

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there are many books written from the point of view of an abused child, but none with such wit. The tenderness Swanna Swain, a 14 year old forced into adulthood by narcissistic parents, feels for her brother is a love story in itself.. Swanna Swain is a modern day Eloise and Lolita. I couldn't put the book down.

a tragedy you will laugh through

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Anyone who has experienced abuse in their childhood whether physical or emotional would not call this book frivolous. Swanna is a 14 year old who is both too old and too young. Her family is falling apart and shes trying to find her place in the world. Jennifer Belle is my favorite author and her writing is real.

INVERSE LOLITA

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The plot is incredibly frivolous, boring and exasperating. Much like swanna. The bland circles this book runs around is almost mind numbing.

“Inverse lolita” right.

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