Homegrown
Published on 27. March 2017
454 pages
978-1-5246-8539-3 (ISBN)
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When two suburban retirees decide to enter the marijuana trade for extra spending money, it doesn't take long for things to go haywire. First one of their distributors plunges off the deep end, while the other becomes the object of a conspiracy-minded neighbor's bizarre fixation. Then there comes a court case, multiple, hysterical calls to 911 and an utterly harebrained burglary, as everyone's peculiar symptoms deteriorate. Meanwhile, the lives of other neighbors, from DEA agents to smarmy lobbying lawyers who avidly peruse the pages of Peddling magazine are linked to the lunacy of the main characters. In short, Homegrown could easily be called a comic meditation on mental illness.
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Eve Ottenberg has published thirteen other novels and a collection of stories. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of literary journals. She has also published much journalism and criticism over the years: she has written a weekly column for The Village Voice on politics and housing in Manhattan and also covered the criminal courts for the Voice. Her book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, The Baltimore Sun, The Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Nation, The New Yorker's "Briefly Noted" section, The Washington Post, The Washington City Paper, In These Times and many other venues. She has published articles in The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Elle, Working Mother and other magazines and newspapers. She has also worked as an editor and writer at several publications. Currently she works as a school library media specialist.
