The Girl Who Wanted to Be Like a Spoon - Ravyn, Dana
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THE GIRL WHO WANTED TO BE LIKE A SPOON is a glimpse of a teenage girl's life as she wanders through the shadowy world of Swansea Beach Amusement Park in the summer of 1967. Her parents are clueless that she sells newspapers in bars and forges friendships with the hippies who sleep under the pier, a cabalistic clown, an erudite sex worker, and a fortune teller. Penny's once-innocent world begins to spin out of control when she gets a crush on an older woman and faces the tragic loss of a cherished friend and protector. She emerges as a stronger person, but an encounter with her crush fifteen…mehr

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THE GIRL WHO WANTED TO BE LIKE A SPOON is a glimpse of a teenage girl's life as she wanders through the shadowy world of Swansea Beach Amusement Park in the summer of 1967. Her parents are clueless that she sells newspapers in bars and forges friendships with the hippies who sleep under the pier, a cabalistic clown, an erudite sex worker, and a fortune teller. Penny's once-innocent world begins to spin out of control when she gets a crush on an older woman and faces the tragic loss of a cherished friend and protector. She emerges as a stronger person, but an encounter with her crush fifteen years later shakes her beliefs about herself and the past. This poignant and luminescent coming-of-age story will touch readers, young and old.
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DANA RAVYN received her PhD in microbiology and MPH in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota, where she was an educator and researcher until 2000. Dana's research garnered two patents and her medical and educational research has been published widely. Since then, Dana has been a medical writer and physician educator, authoring accredited content used for continuing education by physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. Dana is the author of three other novels, Fearless Heart (KDP, 2014) The Suicide Switch (Wynkyn Worde, 2023), and The Woman From Montevideo (Wynkyn Worde, 2024), as well as an award-winning book of poetry, A Supplication For Crows (Una súplica para los cuevos). In 2023, she was selected to take part as a poet in the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Dana lives in Delaware.