Description: The phenomenal success of The Pollen Room already has been the subject of a prominent New York Times Arts Section feature, and every major newspaper in Europe has covered the story of Zoe Jenny and her breakout book -- which sold more than 80,000 copies in Switzerland and Germany. Foreign rights have been sold in ten countries, including Great Britain, France, Italy, Greece, Korea, Norway, and the Netherlands.

This spare, haunting, coming-of-age tale is the story of Jo, who is barely three years old when her mother runs off with a lover. Suddenly this child finds herself alone nights while her father works the swing shift, cowering in a house once full of the laughter and free love sweeping across Europe in the early 1970s.

In lyrical, incisive prose, Zoe Jenny describes Jo's hunt for love's meaning and repercussions. In her teens Jo falls into dangerous sexual liaisons and experiments with the drug Ecstasy, lured by their feel-good promises. At seventeen, she embarks on a search for the mother who abandoned her. Ultimately, it is the discovery of her mother's own demons that brings about a bittersweet reconciliation of childhood fantasies and adult reality.

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