For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781582435459)

In this collection about life as a twentysomething in the twenty-first century, Kathleen Rooney writes with the finesse of someone well beyond her years, but with fresh insights that reveal a girl still making discoveries at every turn. Varied and original, the tales in For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs recount the perils of falling in love with the unlikeliest of people, of visiting the New York apartments of a vanished poet, and of touring an animal retirement home with her parents. Of getting a Brazilian wax, and of chauffeuring a U.S. senator around town. Of saying good-bye to a cousin who's joining a convent, and of trying to convince herself that she's not wasting her life. This is a book about love and longing, poetry and plagiarism, death and democracy, mountain floods and Midwestern cicadas. Here is a young woman struggling to find her place as an adult and a citizen in an America that rarely manages to live up to Whitman's dream of it. With this book, Rooney sings--yes, in fact, she trills--loud and clear.

Author: Kathleen Rooney
ISBN-10: 1582435456
ISBN-13: 9781582435459
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2009
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/16/2009 pg. 47
Booklist 02/01/2010 pg. 16