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Second HandMichael Zadoorian

Second Hand

2000272 pages
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"Richard owns a second-hand store ("Satori Junk") just outside Detroit. He's the kind of guy for whom not much happens, until it happens all at once: His mother dies. He rummages his parents' basement for good junk and finds (alongside "every purse my mother has ever owned since the fifties") a box of photos that changes his view of everything. He falls apart over his mother's notes on his favorite meal in an old cookbook. He meets Theresa, a fellow hipster, a thrift-attired junk goddess who shares his feeling for castaways, and he falls for her - hard. Along the way he acquires some junk…

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3 editions
  • Other · English · 2001
    Dell · 272 pages · 9780385335706
  • Other · English · 2000
    W.W. Norton · 270 pages · 9780393047974
  • Other · English · 2000
    Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 272 pages · 9780393342918
FictionJunk tradeSecondhand tradeFiction, generalMichigan, fictionNew York Times reviewed