Nicotine

Nell Zink

Nicotine
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Ecco Press
Country
Published
20 June 2017
Pages
304
ISBN
9780062441713

Nicotine

Nell Zink

The wonderfully talented (Dwight Garner, New York Times) author of Mislaid returns with a heady, witty (Booklist) novel of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian father’s childhood home.

Recent business school graduate Penny Baker has rebelled against her family her whole life–by being the conventional one. Her mother, Amalia, was a member of an Amazonian tribe called the Kogi; her much older father, Norm, long ago attained cult-like deity status among a certain group of aging hippies while operating a ‘healing center’ in New Jersey. And she’s never felt particularly close to her much-older half-brothers from Norm’s previous marriage-one wickedly charming and obscenely rich (but mostly just wicked), one a photographer on a distant tropical island.

But all that changes when her father dies, and Penny inherits his childhood home in New Jersey. She goes to investigate the property and finds it occupied by a group of friendly and charming anarchist squatters who have renamed the property Nicotine House. The residents of Nicotine House (defenders of smokers’ rights) possess the type of passion and fervor Penny feels she’s desperately lacking, and the other squatter houses in the neighborhood provide a sense of community she’s never felt before. Penny soon moves into a nearby residence, becoming enmeshed in the political fervor and commitment of her fellow squatters.

As the Baker family’s lives begin to converge around the fate of the Nicotine House, Penny grows ever bolder and more desperate to protect it-and its residents-until a fateful night when a reckless confrontation between her old family and her new one changes everything.

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