Nicotine

By Nell Zink

Subjects: Squatters, Literary, Fiction, Families, Fiction, family life, FICTION / Family Life, Smoking, Family Life, New jersey, fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, FICTION, New York Times reviewed, FICTION / Literary

Description: The conventional one in a non-conventional family, Penny Baker inherits her father's childhood home in New Jersey. She finds the property not overgrown and abandoned, but occupied by a group of friendly anarchist squatters whom she finds unexpectedly charming, and who have renamed the property Nicotine House. The residents are defenders of smokers' rights, and they possess the type of passion and fervor Penny feels she's desperately lacking. As her family's lives begin to converge around the fate of the Nicotine House, a reckless confrontation between her old family and her new one changes everything.