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.