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The "wonderfully accomplished" (Dwight Garner, New York Times) author of Mislaid profits with a brutal and audaciously funny book of households - both the ones we're blessed into and those we create, a tale of obsession, idealism, and ownership centered around a female who inherits her late bohemian father's child years home. Recent business university graduate Cent Baker has rebelled against her family her whole life - when you are the traditional one. Her mom, Amalia, was an associate of your South American tribe called the Kogi; her much more aged father, Norm, long ago attained cultlike deity status among a certain cohort of ageing hippies while functioning a psychedelic "healing center". And she's never believed particularly near her much more aged half-brothers from Norm's earlier relationship - one wickedly charming and obscenely wealthy (but largely just wicked), one a professional photographer on a faraway tropical island. But everything changes when her father dies, and Cent inherits his child years home in NJ. She would go to investigate the property and finds it not overgrown and forgotten, but instead occupied by a group of friendly anarchist squatters whom she finds unexpectedly charming and who've renamed the property "Nicotine". The Cigarette smoking residents (united in defense of smokers' privileges) possess the kind of love and fervor Cent feels she's frantically missing, and the other squatter properties in the neighborhood give a sense of community she has never believed before. She soon goes into a close by house, becoming enmeshed in the political fervor and commitment of her fellow squatters. As the Baker family's lives start to converge about the fate of the home now called Cigarette smoking, Penny grows ever bolder and even more desperate to protect it - and its residents - until a fateful night time whenever a reckless confrontation between her old family and her new one changes everything. Nell Zink exquisitely captures the clash between baby boomer idealism and millennial pragmatism, between the have-nots and want-mores, in a riotous yet soft book that brilliantly encapsulates our time.
