000717304 000__ 02115cam\a2200349\a\4500 000717304 001__ 717304 000717304 005__ 20210515102429.0 000717304 008__ 991021s2000\\\\mau\\\\\\\\\\\000\1\eng\\ 000717304 010__ $$a 99056112 000717304 020__ $$a0395945151 000717304 020__ $$a9780395945155 000717304 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm42733644 000717304 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$cDLC$$dBAKER$$dBTCTA$$dYDXCP$$dZCU$$dOCLCQ$$dDB@$$dP4I$$dOCLCQ$$dOCLCO$$dISE 000717304 043__ $$an-us-ca 000717304 05000 $$aPS3552.E53849$$bL55 2000 000717304 08200 $$a813/.54$$221 000717304 1001_ $$aBender, Karen E. 000717304 24510 $$aLike normal people /$$cKaren E. Bender. 000717304 260__ $$aBoston :$$bHoughton Mifflin,$$c2000. 000717304 300__ $$aviii, 269 pages ;$$c24 cm 000717304 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000717304 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia 000717304 5201_ $$a"Like Normal People charts a family constellation that revolves around an off-kilter center: Lena, who is forty-eight but mentally locked in her childhood. Moving deftly between present and past, the novel follows Lena's day-long escape from her residential home with her troubled twelve-year-old niece. While this odd couple takes refuge on a honky-tonk southern California beach, Lena's widowed mother, Ella, goes in search of them." 000717304 5208_ $$a"In the process, Ella relives her own life's dreams and disappointments: her marriage to a sweet, loving shoe salesman; her discovery of Lena's handicap and her aching attempts to give her daughter a "normal" childhood. For so long, Lena has been the focus of Ella's world. When Lena at last finds approximate normalcy - by marrying a man much like herself - Ella must contend with letting her daughter go."--Jacket. 000717304 650_0 $$aMothers and daughters$$vFiction. 000717304 650_0 $$aWomen with mental disabilities$$vFiction. 000717304 650_0 $$aMissing persons$$vFiction. 000717304 651_0 $$aCalifornia, Southern$$vFiction. 000717304 655_7 $$aDomestic fiction.$$2lcgft 000717304 85200 $$bgen$$hPS3552.E53849$$iL55$$i2000 000717304 85641 $$3Sample text$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/hm051/99056112.html 000717304 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0735/99056112-b.html 000717304 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm022/99056112.html 000717304 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:717304$$pGLOBAL_SET 000717304 980__ $$aBIB 000717304 980__ $$aBOOK