Losing it

Resource Information

The work Losing it represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Salt Lake County Library Services. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Losing it

Statement of responsibility

Emma Rathbone

Creator

• Rathbone, Emma

Author

• Rathbone, Emma

Subject

• Young women -- Fiction
• FICTION -- Contemporary Women
• Loneliness -- Fiction
• FICTION -- Coming of Age
• Virginity -- Fiction
• Bildungsromans
• North Carolina -- Fiction
• Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction
• Desire -- Fiction
• Humorous fiction
• Humorous stories
• FICTION -- Humorous
• Aunts -- Fiction
• First sexual experiences -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Bildungsromans
• Humorous fiction

Language

eng

Summary

• "A poignant, hilarious novel about a woman who still has her virginity at the age of twenty-six, and the summer she's determined to lose it and find herself. Julia Greenfield has a problem: she's twenty-six years old and she's still a virgin. Sex ought to be easy. People have it all the time! But, without meaning to, she made it through college and into adulthood with her virginity intact. Something's got to change. To re-route herself from her stalled life, Julia travels to spend the summer with her mysterious aunt Vivienne in North Carolina. It's not long, however, before she unearths a confounding secret her 58 year old aunt is a virgin too. In the unrelenting heat of the southern summer, Julia becomes fixated on puzzling out what could have lead to Viv's appalling condition, all while trying to avoid the same fate. Filled with offbeat characters and subtle, wry humor, Losing It is about the primal fear that you just. might. never. meet. anyone. It's about desiring something with the kind of obsessive fervor that almost guarantees you won't get it. It's about the blurry lines between sex and love, and trying to figure out which one you're going for. And it's about the decisions and non-decisions we make that can end up shaping a life"--
• Julia Greenfield is twenty-six years old and still a virgin... and something's got to change. She travels to spend the summer with her mysterious aunt Vivienne in North Carolina, and unearths a confounding secret: her 58 year old aunt is a virgin too. Julia becomes fixated on puzzling out what could have lead to Viv's appalling condition, all while trying to avoid the same fate

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3618.A84

LC item number

L67 2016

Literary form

fiction