Nicotine

Author

Nell Zink

Call Number

• FICTION ZINK (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]

Physical Description

288 pages ; 24 cm.

Summary

Inheriting her hippie father's childhood home in New Jersey, a young woman who has rebelled against her family her entire life arrives at the house and encounters a group of charming anarchist squatters who share her political beliefs and fervent approach to life.

The conventional one in a non-conventional family, Penny Baker inherits her father's childhood home in New Jersey. She finds the property not overgrown and abandoned, but occupied by a group of friendly anarchist squatters whom she finds unexpectedly charming, and who have renamed the property Nicotine House. The residents are defenders of smokers' rights, and they possess the type of passion and fervor Penny feels she's desperately lacking. As her family's lives begin to converge around the fate of the Nicotine House, a reckless confrontation between her old family and her new one changes everything.