
From the much acclaimed author of MISLAID & THE WALLCREEPER a fierce & audaciously funny novel of families-both the ones we're born into & the ones we create-a story of obsession idealism & ownership centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian late father's childhood home " She wills her body to be equally wraithlike Not sodden not heavy not dead but filled with crackling electric life like a stale Marlboro on fire" Unemployed business major Penny has rebelled against her family her whole life
- by being the conventional one Her mother was a member of a South American tribe; her father was a Jewish Shamanist with a psychedelic 'healing centre' But everything changes when her father dies & Penny inherits his childhood home Left weightless & unmoored after being the only member of her family with time for her dying father Penny then finds his property occupied by a group of squatters united in defence of smokers' rights
- & herself unexpectedly besotted with them particularly Rob the hot bicycle-&-tobacco activist Totally addictive & dangerously good Nicotine' is a fiercely funny novel in which passion is politics & nonviolence is the opposite of surrender