Marilou Is Everywhere

By - Sarah Elaine Smith

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Riverhead Books, New York, 2019

ISBN 10 - 0525535241

ISBN 13 - 9780525535249

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - False personation

Shelf No - 5

Call Number - 813.54 SMI

Physical Description - 276 pages ; 24 cm

Book Information

Fourteen-year-old Cindy and her two older brothers live in rural Pennsylvania, in a house with occasional electricity, two fierce dogs, one book, and a mother who comes and goes for months at a time. Deprived of adult supervision, the siblings rely on one another for nourishment of all kinds. As Cindy's brothers take on new responsibilities for her care, the shadow of danger looms larger and the status quo no longer seems tolerable. So when a glamorous teen from a more affluent, cultured home goes missing, Cindy escapes her own family's poverty and slips into the missing teen's life. As Jude Vanderjohn, Cindy is suddenly surrounded by books and art, by new foods and traditions, and most important, by a startling sense of possibility. In her borrowed life she also finds herself accepting the confused love of a mother who is constitutionally incapable of grasping what has happened to her real daughter. As Cindy experiences overwhelming maternal love for the first time, she must reckon with her own deceits and, in the process, learn what it means to be a daughter, a sister, and a neighbor.

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