A Room on Lorelei Street, Mary E. Pearson
A Room on Lorelei Street, Mary E. Pearson
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A Room on Lorelei Street

Author: Mary E. Pearson

Narrator: Natalie Ross

Unabridged: 6 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 03/20/2010

Synopsis

A room is not much. It is not arms holding you. Not a kiss on the forehead. Not a packed lunch or a remembered birthday. Just a room. But for seventeen-year-old Zoe, struggling to shed the suffocating responsibility of her alcoholic mother and the controlling guilt of her grandmother, a rented room on Lorelei Street is a fierce grab for control of her own future. Zoe rents her room from Opal Keats, an eccentric old lady who has a difficult past of her own, but who chooses to live in the possibility of the future. Zoe tries to find that same possibility in her own future, promising that she will never go crawling back. But with all odds against her, can a seventeen-year-old with a job slinging hash make it on her own? Zoe struggles with this worry and the guilt of abandoning her mother as she goes to lengths that even she never dreamed she would in order to keep the room on Lorelei Street.

About Mary E. Pearson

Mary E. Pearson’s books to date are The Adoration of Jenna Fox, The Miles Between, and Scribbler of Dreams. She writes full time from her home in San Diego.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erin

At the age of seventeen, Zoe's known for awhile that her mother is far from perfect. An alcoholic pill-popper, she can't even be trusted to make it to work, let alone pay the bills on time. Zoe dreams of escape from her personal hell. One day, the opportunity presents itself to her in the form of a "......more

Goodreads review by Sheena

I think the biggest reaction I had to this book was frustration. I was frustrated at Zoe’s teacher, her grandmother, her mother, just her life in general. I felt for her as she tried to create a better life for herself and things just kept pushing down. Unfortunately I think there are many teens out......more

Goodreads review by Patrick

This is a teen fiction companion to Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. Like many teens, Zoe dreams of moving out, but it is a nightmare at home (dead father, alcoholic mother, and suffocating grandmother) that lets her make the move. And while there's the nice ol......more

Goodreads review by Zhiqing

17 year old Zoe moved out of the house she shared with her alcoholic mother, rented a room from an eccentric lady on Lorelei street, and tried to make it on her own while joggling between school, sports, work and family obligations. I really wanted to like this book more and wish I could feel more sy......more

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