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Papademetriou, Lisa

Chasing Normal

193 pp. | Hyperion | April, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4231-0340-0 $15.99
(3) 4-6 Twelve-year-old Mieka and her artist father fly to Houston to visit her estranged grandmother, staying with Mieka's aunt and cousins in their luxurious home. Papademetriou captures well the awkwardness of trying to fit into a family. There is little drama, but the Houston setting is vividly drawn, and Mieka is an observant narrator, concluding that "normal" is something that doesn't exist.
Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke

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