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Same Old Paradise
Hardcover, 632 Pages
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Meet Genie Koko, the youngest female cabbie in all of New York City. She’s about to land a fare from midtown Manhattan to borderland Texas.
It’s 1992, and twenty-six-year-old Genie, a Caribbean immigrant living with her uncle in Brooklyn, grinds out long days hacking a cab. Mess surrounds her, and she’s struggling to keep herself free of it—but to what purpose, she wonders. Caught in lunch-hour traffic on West Forty-Eighth while reluctantly negotiating the rescue of her uncle’s unwanted macaw, she picks up a rumpled, white-haired man smelling of booze. Dr. Phlogiston T. Hemphill is his name, and he wants to hire her for a week-long cross-country taxi ride to West Texas.
Fed up with all she has, and with her passenger's big cash advance in her pocket, Genie risks the chance of a lifetime...
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Product Details
- Copyright
- Stephan Junker (Standard Copyright License)
- Edition
- Hardcover
- Published
- November 19, 2010
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 632
- Binding
- Hardcover (dust-jacket)
- Interior Ink
- Black & white
- Weight
- 2 lbs.
- Dimensions (inches)
- 6 wide x 9 tall
- Product ID
- 13654992
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Keywords
- taxi driving ,
- cabbie fiction ,
- New York City ,
- crosscountry taxi ride ,
- cocktail piano ,
- Phlogiston ,
- Hemphill ,
- Genie Koko ,
- modern picaresque ,
- West Texas taxi ,
- Curacao ,
- NYC Fiction ,
- West Texas Fiction ,
- Steve Junker
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