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  How the Light Gets in (Paperback) By (author) M J Hyland

  

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  Short Description for How the Light Gets inIn this acutely observed and darkly humorous tale of adolescence, a gifted but unhappy 16-year-old Australian girl trades poverty for suburban suffocation when she takes part in an exchange program in the U.S.
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  • Publisher: Canongate Us
  • Published: 11 May 2004
  • Format: Paperback 320 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781841955483 ISBN 10: 1841955485
  • Sales rank: 263,168

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• Lou Connor, a precocious, gifted, and unhappy sixteen-year-old, is offered a place as an exchange student in the United States, something that she hopes will take her far away from her bleak life of poverty in Sydney, Australia. Having endured a childhood with an emotionally crass, deadbeat family, she welcomes the opportunity to live the middle-class life she has long dreamed of. But soon after she moves in with her host family, the Hardings - who live in a prefabricated mansion in a nameless Chicago suburb - Lou's acute need for acceptance and love runs up against the Hardings' suffocating pursuit of a particular form of suburban perfection.How the Light Gets In is a portrait of a girl on the verge of adulthood whose world - like Holden Caulfield's before her - is full of mixed messages.