Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking

Miranda's often-elusive father announces that he has arranged for her to travel to New York to stay with friends from his old life. After she embarks on this journey that reveals the truth about her father's past, it opens up her world in ways she cannot begin to imagine.

Critically acclaimed by reviewers across the country, Aoibheann Sweeneyas beautifully written debut novel is a story of the profound human need for intimacy. For Miranda, the adolescence spent in her fog-shrouded Maine home has been stark and isolateda alone with her troubled father, a man consumed with his work translating Ovidas "Metamorphoses," her mother mysteriously gone from their lives. Now, having graduated from high school, Mirandaas father arranges for her to stay with old friends in Manhattan, and she embarks on a journey that will open up her fatheras pastaand her own worldain ways she cannot begin to imagine.