Ebook {Epub PDF} The Last Days of California by Mary Miller

Mary Miller reinvents the classic American literary road-trip story, reviving its august traditions with the yearning and spiritual ennui of twenty-first-century adolescence. As the last day approaches, Jess's teenage myopia gradually gives way to a growing awareness of .  · The Last Days of California, is a coming-of-age tale, a story of growing up and finding one’s place in the world. Struggling to find your place in the world can feel like the world is ending. But in Mary Miller’s debut novel, it actually www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins.  · Just as Arthur Phillips’s “Prague” follows a group of Americans living not in the title city but in less trendy Budapest, Mary Miller’s terrific first novel, “The Last Days of California.

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The Last Days of California: A Novel Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Mary Miller (Author), Andi Arndt (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) 0 more. out of 5 stars. 85 ratings. See all formats and editions. With The Last Days of California, Mary Miller bursts into the literary world, taking up the mantle of Southern fiction and rendering it her own with wry vulnerability and contemporary urgency. Miller's revelatory protagonist, Jess, is fourteen years old and waiting for the world to end. Mary Miller is a ventriloquist of adolescent angst and a nervy surveyor of American culture." Alexis Smith "The Last Days of California is a beautiful examination of youth and family and what it means to be alive (and to fear dying) in contemporary America every scene tremble[s] with significance Rarely, if ever, have we seen young American womanhood painted in such a raw and honest and heartbreaking way.".