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This entertaining debut (sections of which have appeared in The New Yorker) looks ironically at the twentysomething generation as represented by Louise Darren Parkman, slacker extraordinaire. Unemployed, on the rebound, and a spiritual outcast in her native Tennessee, Louise lies herself into the Peace Corps and soon lands in Senegal preparing to teach English as a foreign language though she lacks ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More