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020			_a9789463003551 _q(electronic book)
020			_z9789463003544 _q(print)
024	7		_a10.1007/978-94-6300-355-1 _2DOI
035			_a(OCoLC)933442742
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100	1		_aLeavy, Patricia, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aBlue / _cPatricia Leavy.
264		1	_aLeiden, _aBoston : _bBrill | Sense, _c2016.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aSocial Fictions Series; _vv. 18
490	0		_aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_aPreliminary Material -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Afterword: Connections between Blue and Low-Fat Love -- Suggested Classroom Use -- Excerpt from Low-Fat Love: Expanded Anniversary Edition -- About the Author.
506			_aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520			_aWinner! American Fiction Awards 2018 - award-winning finalist in the categories chick-lit/women's lit and inspirational fiction! Blue follows three roommates as they navigate life and love in their post-college years. Tash Daniels, the former party girl, falls for deejay Aidan. Always attracted to the wrong guy, what happens when the right one comes along? Jason Woo, a lighthearted model on the rise, uses the club scene as his personal playground. While he’s adept at helping Tash with her personal life, how does he deal with his own when he meets a man that defies his expectations? Penelope, a reserved and earnest graduate student slips under the radar, but she has a secret no one suspects. As the characters’stories unfold, each is forced to confront their life choices or complacency and choose which version of themselves they want to be. Blue is a novel about identity, friendship, figuring out who we are during the “in-between” phases of life, and the search for people who “get us.” The characters in Blue show how our interactions with people often bump up against backstage struggles we know nothing of. Visual art, television and film, appear as signposts throughout the narrative, providing a context for how we each come to build our sense of self in the world. With a tribute to 1980s pop culture, set against the backdrop of contemporary New York, Blue both celebrates and questions the ever-changing cultural landscape against which we live our stories, frame by frame. Although fictional, Blue is grounded in interview research, teaching and personal observations. It can be read entirely for pleasure or used as supplemental reading in a variety of courses in women’s/gender studies, sociology, psychology, communication, popular culture, media studies, qualitative inquiry, narrative inquiry or arts-based research. The protagonist, Tash Daniels, originally appeared in the best-selling novel Low-Fat Love ( Blue is set several years later). Blue can be read as a stand-alone novel.
650		0	_aCollege graduates _xFiction.
650		0	_aYoung adults _xFiction.
650		0	_aFriendship _xFiction.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tBlue _dLeiden, Boston : Brill | Sense, 2016, _z9789463003544
830		0	_aSocial Fictions Series _v18.
830		0	_aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-355-1
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