Oola
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Thank you, Eric. My worm, my wife. My first reader, my last laugh. Here’s to our queer paradise. Everything we love is bent, one way or another. I could ask for nothing more.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BRITTANY NEWELL, who often writes and performs under the nom de plume Ratty St. John, will graduate from Stanford University in 2017. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is the winner of the Norman Mailer Award for Fiction. You can contact her at ratty.writes@gmail.com. This is her first book. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
X
Beach House
London
Arizona
On the Road
Big Sur
Public Pool
Nude Beach
Bad Days
Day Trip
Super 8
The Clinic
Homeward Bound
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
OOLA. Copyright © 2017 by Brittany Newell. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
www.henryholt.com
Cover design by David Shoemaker
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Newell, Brittany, 1994– author.
Title: Oola: a novel / Brittany, Newell.
Description: First edition.|New York: Henry Holt Paperbacks, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016024866|ISBN 9781250114143 (paperback)|ISBN 9781250114150 (electronic book)
Subjects: LCSH: Man-woman relationships—Fiction.|BISAC: FICTION / Literary.|GSAFD: Bildungsromans.|Psychological fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3614.E582 O55 2017|DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016024866
First Edition: April 2017
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.