Drinking Closer to Home

By Jessica Anya Blau

"Riveting and startling....So raw and funny I wanted to read parts aloud to strangers." --Dylan Landis, author of Normal People Don't Live Like This

"Jessica Anya Blau...creates characters that have a lot more depth and more of a past than one often sees in fiction these days.... I found it impossible not to care about them--and equally impossible to forget them. Blau is a magnificent writer, and this is one special novel." --Steve Yarbrough, author of Safe from the Neighbors

From Jessica Anya Blau, critically-acclaimed author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, comes a new novel of California, growing up, and learning to love your insane family. Perfect for fans of Jess Walter, Kevin Wilson, and Michael Chabon, Drinking Closer to Home is a poignant and funny exploration of one family's over-the-top eccentricities--a book Ron Tanner calls "heartfelt and hilarious."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B005UVSROK
• ISBN13: 9780061984020
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.1"