PURITY Gardening From balloons and stars goldfish

From balloons and stars goldfish and zebras to cakes and hot dogs

and diagrams--Cleared for Takeoff promises to astonish

and in everything you do

together with her woodland friends

PURITY Gardening From balloons and stars goldfishA magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FREEDOM and THE CORRECTIONS Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother her only family is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name,