Everything's Not Fine

Everything's Not FineAuthor: Sarah Carlson ISBN: 9781684424115 Publisher: Turner Year first published: 04 Aug 2020 Pages: Format: Hardback Seventeen year old Rose Hemmersbach aspires to break out of small town Sparta, Wisconsin and achieve her artistic dreams, just like her aunt Colleen. Rose's love of Frida Kahlo fuels her paint brush and her dreams to attend a prestigious art school. Painting is Rose's escape from her annoying younger siblings and her family's one rule:

ISBN: 9781471910562

ISBN: 9781487593629

This book makes a claim for the importance of the Midlands and evidences this with nuanced close reading of a multitude of diverse texts spanning so-called 'high' to 'low' culture

to intercept

fantasy or romance

It offers a revealing look at the corruptive nature of wealth

but a hard-earned wisdom and talent for observing life in all its forms

the place began to exert a weird fascination upon me

Emma will have you laughing

Surrounded by scores of masks and painted skulls

Sonia Daccarett grew up with a Jewish mother and a Christian Palestinian father in Colombia during the drug-war 1980s

These men promptly escaped from maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground