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The Last Days of California - A Novel

The Last Days of California - A Novel

by Mary Miller (Author)

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Synopsis

Fifteen year old Jess is waiting for the world to end. Her evangelical father has packed up the family to drive to California, hoping to save as many souls as possible before the Second Coming. With her long-suffering mother and rebellious (secretly pregnant) sister, Jess hands out tracts at every break in the journey. As Jess's belief frays, her teenage myopia evolves into awareness about her fracturing family. Selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover pick, Mary Miller's radiant debut novel reinvigorates the literary road-trip story with wry vulnerability and savage charm.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Liveright
Published: 31 Oct 2014
ISBN 10: 0871408414
ISBN 13: 9780871408419

Media Reviews
[A] terrific first novel... Why worry about labeling a book this good? Just read it. -- The New York Times Book Review
A plangent portrait of American adolescence... [Miller delivers] raw the heartbreaking futility of the Metcalfs' small triumphs, private embarrassments, and poor decisions with such hilarious precision that you become completely involved in their struggles-and, ultimately, in awe of their abiding hope. -- Elle
The set-up of the story in Mary Miller's debut novel is clever and alluring, and what follows does not disappoint - a sharp, sensuously-written road tale that is both a satirical vision of a grotesque society and a down-to-earth coming-of-age narrative told by an appealing anti-heroine who is determined to stay hopeful against all the apocalyptic odds. -- The Irish Times
Author Bio
Mary Miller is the author of The Last Days of California and the short story collections Big World and Always Happy Hour. She is a former James A. Michener Fellow in Fiction and John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.