Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America Elif Shafak Lana is stuck counting otters

Lana is stuck counting otters instead of square footage—and hoping that boredom won’t kill her before the cancer does

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From the author of the Reese Witherspoon book club pick The Guest List

Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America Elif Shafak Lana is stuck counting ottersFrom one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the forces eroding Americas social fabric, her most personal and powerful work: a reckoning with the changes that have rocked her own beloved small Ohio hometown Urbana, Ohio, was not a utopia when Beth Macy grew up there in the 70s and 80s, certainly not for her family. Her dad was known as the town drunk, which hurt, as did their poverty. But Urbana had a healthy economy and thriving schools, and Macy