Potential Hazards of Hester Day by Mercedes Helnwein
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Mercedes Helnwein's debut novel is a sophisticated, savvy story that explores the un-likely friendship between two adolescent outcasts and a ten-year-old aspiring space-cowboy--and what happens when you throw them in a camper without a compass.

Hester Louise Day: high school graduate, almost-wife, would-be mother, soon to be wanted for kidnapping a ten-year-old with a comb-over. Apprehensive about spending the rest of her existence in a void of nothingness in Nowheresville, Florida, where she currently lives with her painfully intrusive family, she decides to tip her life over into any kind of surrealism she can lay her hands on.

Shortly after graduation and a heated fight with her mother featuring an airborne toaster, Hester's life takes a turn for the better when she notices a billboard with two wide-eyed children and the catchy phrase All they want for Christmas is a family. What better way to drive a chainsaw through her placid existence? But when the adoption agency rejects her application to adopt a child, she realizes she must do something more drastic to derail the mediocre life threatening to spread out before her.

Having found herself stuck in a camper named Arlene with Fenton Flaherty, her nemesis from the library (who, through a series of interesting events is now also Hester's husband), Jethro, Hester's ten-year-old cousin, and Duncan Clyde, a.k.a. Jesus Freak, who is traveling along the side of the road asking passersby to sign his life-sized cross, Hester is quickly freed from anything even remotely mediocre (or normal, for that matter) about her life.

Preposterously dysfunctional, side-splittingly funny, and surprisingly touching, The Potential Hazards of Hester Day is an adventure that you'll want to experience again and again.
About the Author: Born to a renowned painter in Vienna, Austria, Mercedes Helnwein is 27 years old, and has been writing since she was a teenager. She began working as a writer of fiction in the realm of short stories and shortly after began publishing works in various magazines and literary journals--fiction as well as non-fiction. After moving to Los Angeles in 2000, she began work on Amazing Grace, her first novel, while at the same time beginning to exhibit her drawings. Currently living in Ireland and Los Angeles, Helnwein is now exhibiting her art internationally, as well as working on a second novel.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781416574668
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Schuster
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 148 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1416574662
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 213 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 335 gr


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