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  Title

  Delicious foods : a novel First edition.

  Author

  Hannaham, James,  

  Publisher:

  Little, Brown and Company,

  Pub date:

  2015.

  Pages:

  371 pages ;

  ISBN:

  9780316284943

  Item info:

  2 copies available at Fairfield Public Library and Fairfield Woods Branch Library.
  

  • 9780316284943
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    Fairfield Public Library	Copies	Material Type	Current Location
    FICTION HANNAHAM	1	Book	Lower Stacks
    Fairfield Woods Branch Library	Copies	Material Type	Current Location
    FICTION HANNAHAM	1	Book	Main Floor

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  Personal Author:

  Hannaham, James,

  Title:

  Delicious foods : a novel / James Hannaham.

  Edition:

  First edition.

  Physical description:

  371 pages ; 25 cm

  Summary:

  "Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband. Unable to cope with her grief, she turns to drugs, and quickly forms an addiction. One day she disappears without a trace. Unbeknownst to eleven-year-old Eddie, now left behind in a panic-stricken search for her, Darlene has been lured away with false promises of a good job and a rosy life. A shady company named Delicious Foods shuttles her to a remote farm, where she is held captive, performing hard labor in the fields to pay off the supposed debt for her food, lodging, and the constant stream of drugs the farm provides to her and the other unfortunates imprisoned there. In Delicious Foods, James Hannaham tells the gripping story of three unforgettable characters: a mother, her son, and the drug that threatens to destroy them. Through Darlene's haunted struggle to reunite with Eddie, through the efforts of both to triumph over those who would enslave them, and through the irreverent and mischievous voice of the drug that narrates Darlene's travails, Hannaham's daring and shape-shifting prose infuses this harrowing experience with grace and humor. The desperate circumstances that test the unshakeable bond between this mother and son unfold into myth, and Hannaham's treatment of their ordeal spills over with compassion. Along the way we experience a tale at once contemporary and historical that wrestles with timeless questions of love and freedom, forgiveness and redemption, tenacity and the will to survive" -- provided by publisher.

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  Subject term:

  Drug addicts--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Forced labor--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Mothers and sons--Fiction.