Imperfect Birds
Anne Lamott, 2010
Penguin Group USA
288 pp.
ISBN-13: 9781594487514
Summary
A powerful and redemptive novel of love and family, from the bestselling and beloved Anne Lamott.
Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. She’s smart, athletic, and beautiful—everything her mother, Elizabeth, and stepfather, James, hoped she could be.
But as the school year draws to a close, there are disturbing signs that the well-adjusted teenage life Rosie claims to be leading is a sham, and that Elizabeth’s hopes for her daughter to remain immune from the world’s darker impulses are dashed. Slowly and painfully, Elizabeth and James are forced to confront the fact that Rosie has been lying to them—and that her deceptions have profound consequences on them all. (From the publisher.)