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Jeanne Thornton's debut novel is a love report unlike some other, presenting Julie Thatch, a tough-as-nails, chainsmoking, wise-cracking 17-year-old Texan. Her idol, her old sister, jogs headlong in to the lights of the getting close to car, and dies. And Julie falls in love with a girl who both is and isn't an echo of her old sister, a long-limbed Francophone named Patrice - who is also a devotee of the Institute of Temporal Illusions, a Cathedral of Scientology-like cult. In Julie Thatch you cannot help but see tones of Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander. Jeanne's past writing educator at the University of Texas, Alexander Parsons (author of Leaving Disneyland and In the Shadows of the Sunshine) creates: "The Dream of Doctor Bantam is one of those audiobooks you listen to every few years in which, webpage by webpage, you come to think about the characters as part of your own dear, odd, and intransigent family. In Julie Thatch, Thornton has written a persona as memorable and persuasive as Holden Caufield or Oedipa Maas. She is alternately hilarious, maddening, and charming, a fearful and fearless smartass."
