Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking

Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking is a novel by Aoibheann Sweeney, published in 2007 by Penguin Press. A girl grows up alone with her father on an island in Maine and is sent to stay in New York City with gay friends of her father's who open up her past, and her own world, in ways she cannot begin to imagine. The book was an Editor's Choice at the New York Times Book Review. It also won a Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian Debut Fiction category at the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards.

Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking
AuthorAoibheann Sweeney
Cover artistStephanie Huntwork
LanguageEnglish
GenreComing-of-age
Set in
PublisherPenguin Press
Publication date
July 19, 2007 (2007-07-19)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages257
AwardsLambda Literary Award
ISBN978-1-59420-130-1
813.6
LC ClassPS3619.W4425A8

In a review in The Washington Post, Ron Charles wrote about the way the book “taps into older, sometimes ancient stories...There’s real wisdom in these classic myths and there’s real talent in this sensitive novel.”[1]

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  1. ^ Charles, Ron, July 29, 2007, "Island in the Storm," The Washington Post
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