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Mystery · 2013 · PG-13

Emotionally Weird

by Kate Atkinson

A student and her mother tell each other stories — and the stories keep interrupting each other.

Emotionally Weird is a thoroughly original and hilarious novel about mothers, daughters, and love, by the author of Behind the Scenes at the Museum On a weather-beaten island off the coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother, Nora, take refuge in the large, mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories. Nora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear--like who her real father was. Effie tells various versions of her life at college, where in fact she lives in a lethargic relationship with Bob, a student who never goes to lectures, seldom gets out of bed, and to

For14+GenreMysteryLength324 pagesRead time~8.5 hours

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Violence

Barely any

No significant violence

Language

Barely any

Mild language

Sexual Content

Some

Student sexual relationships

Substance Use

Barely any

Student drinking

Emotional Intensity

Barely any

A playful postmodern meditation on storytelling and identity

What this book is about

Atkinson's 2000 novel is a playful, postmodern campus novel in which Effie tells her estranged mother the story of her student year in Dundee while the mother keeps interrupting with a rival tale. Comic and clever. For older teens and adults.

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