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Win a copy of
Oxford Messed Up
by Andrea Kayne Kaufman
for your reading group!
We celebrated the release of Oxford Messed Up by Andrea Kayne Kaufman --- the story of a clawfoot tub, the music of Van Morrison, and two messed-up souls who bloom with transcendent love --- with a special contest. 25 readers had the opportunity to each win a copy of the book, which is now in stores, for their group.
More about
Oxford Messed Up:
Rhodes Scholar Gloria Zimmerman has come to Oxford University to study feminist poetry. Yet the rigors of academia pale in comparison to her untreated Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, fueled by her overachieving parents and manifested in a deathly aversion to germs and human contact. Her next-door neighbor (who is also, to her mortification, her roommate) is Henry Young, the appealing but underachieving English music student. Still mourning the death of his supportive mother while enduring the mockery of his disapproving and merciless father, Henry is haunted by the unexpectedly serious ramifications of a reckless and tragic youth. Gloria and Henry's relationship evolves from a shared obsession with Van Morrison's music into a desire to fill the gaps in each other’s lives. Yet the constraints of a debilitating illness and the looming revelation of a catastrophic secret conspire to throw their worlds into upheaval and threaten the possibilities of their unlikely yet redemptive love.
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