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Get Lit (All Summer Long): Win a copy of Michelle Huneven's Blame
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Get Lit (All Summer Long): Win a copy of Michelle Huneven's Blame
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| Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 291 pp., $25, Sept. 9 |
As promised, I'm back today with a Get Lit Wednesday special: I've got a shiny-new copy of Michelle Huneven's Blame, a novel about a woman's recovery from alcoholism, to give away to a faithful summer reader.
Entertainment Weekly gave Blame an A- this week. Here's a snippet of the review:
Patsy McLemoore is a newly minted college professor in Southern California with long legs, a Colgate smile, and seemingly limitless academic promise. She's also a blackout alcoholic. When the 29-year-old wakes up from one obliterated evening in county jail, she is met with sickening news: She has killed a young mother and daughter with her car, a brutal, irreversible crime that she can only hazily recall.
What follows is a chronicle of her imprisonment, and subsequent lifelong search for atonement — until a lightning-bolt revelation forces her to reassess nearly everything that came before. It's a plot that, in the kind of foil-embossed paperbacks you pick up at the airport newsstand, could easily turn hamfisted or hokey. But the award-winning Michelle Huneven unfurls her tale with unflagging emotional nuance: Patsy emerges as smart, self-aware, and very much flawed, neither a monster nor a redeemed angel.
To win a copy, answer me this:
According to official Alcoholics Anonymous data, how many people are members of AA worldwide?
E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win.
[UPDATE, 1:20 p.m.]: Congratulations to Clog reader Jackie, who correctly responded that 2 million people around the world are members of Alcoholics Anonymous (in more than 180 countries, y'all).
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