Modern Ranch Living.Modern Ranch Living * Mark Jude Poirier * Miramax * $23.95 Anyone familiar with the bland sunbaked sun·baked adj. Baked, dried, or hardened by exposure to sunlight: sunbaked bricks; the sunbaked salt flats. Adj. 1. suburbs of the American Southwest will see what perfect use Mark Jude Poirier makes of his Tucson upbringing in his second novel, Modern Ranch Living. Sixteen-year-old bodybuilder Kendra Lumm veers between protein rich snacks and bouts of abusive behavior abusive behavior Public health Any of various behaviors–aggressive, coercive or controlling, destructive, harassing, intimidating, isolating, threatening–which a batterer may use to control a domestic partner/victim. See Domestic violence. . This summer she is puzzling over the secret jockstrap collection her brother has stashed under the porch and the disappearance of her marker-sniffing former boyfriend. Meanwhile, her neighbor Merv, who manages Splash World water park and still lives at home at 30, conducts vague forays into the world of adulthood. Poirier's characters are believably be·liev·a·ble adj. Capable of eliciting belief or trust. See Synonyms at plausible. be·liev  a·bil eccentric, and his plots teem teem 1 v. teemed, teem·ing, teems v.intr. 1. To be full of things; abound or swarm: A drop of water teems with microorganisms. 2. with the plausible weirdness of desert towns. |
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