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Swanna in Love

by Jennifer Belle
Sophie Amoss
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It's the summer of 1982 and fourteen-year-old Swanna Swain is the only one left at camp. The place is a ghost town by the time her mother Val finally shows up six hours late—stoned and radiant—in a Ford pickup driven by Borislav, her new young Russian lover. Assuming she is headed home to her air-conditioned Upper West Side apartment, Swanna and her lovable younger brother Madding are instead dragged to Vermont—to an artist colony where kids are not welcome and they are forced to sleep in the back of the truck, while Val is cozy inside the house with the Russian.
Then Swanna meets Dennis, a handsome married father of two, at a bowling alley, and, knowing a thing or two about seduction from Judy Blume, her best friend at camp, and her own parents' many affairs, she sets out to convince Dennis to help her. But love seldom obeys rules, and even a tough, smart city girl like Swanna might not be able to handle falling in love.
Best-selling novelist Jennifer Belle returns with a kind of inverse Lolita that explores adolescent desire from the girl's point of view. In turns hilarious and wildly shocking, Swanna in Love will keep your feathers ruffled and the pages gliding by.

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  • Release date

    February 13, 2024

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9798891787919
      • File size: 231212 KB
      • Duration: 08:01:41

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 16, 2023
      Belle (High Maintenance) returns with a funny and intimate portrait of a precocious 14-year-old girl whose family life is ruptured in 1982. At summer camp, Swanna is relieved to be free from the stress caused by her parents’ recent separation. But when her mother, a self-involved poet, pulls Swanna from the bus back home to New York City, she’s horrified to discover that she’s not going to see her Upper West Side apartment anytime soon. Swanna and her nine-year-old brother, Madding, are heading north to Vermont with her mother and her mother’s new boyfriend, an Elvis-obsessed artist named Borislav, who has been awarded a spot in an artists’ colony there. Children aren’t allowed in the colony, however, so Swanna and Madding are forced to sleep in the bed of Borislav’s truck. Unable to reach her dad in New York, Swanna sees herself as the only adult in the situation: “I hated when strangers talked to me like a child.... I took the subway every day with lunatics.” One day at a bowling alley, she meets a man named Dennis, a 37-year-old married doctor and father of two. A few days later, Dennis picks Swanna up while she’s on an angry walk near the artists’ colony, and she turns up her charm, recognizing him as her way out. Soon, they’ve embarked on an affair as head-spinning as it is ill-considered. Whip-smart dialogue and a convincing teenage perspective add heft to this comic novel. Belle breaks hearts with the story of Swanna’s first love. Agent: Douglas Stewart, Sterling Lord Literistic.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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