Bibliograph

Close enough to touch, Colleen Oakley

Type

Label

Close enough to touch, Colleen Oakley

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 541)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Close enough to touch

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

973199795

Responsibility statement

Colleen Oakley

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print basic

Summary

One time a boy kissed me and I almost died... And so begins the story of Jubilee Jenkins, a young woman with a rare and debilitating medical condition: she's allergic to other humans. After a humiliating near-death experience in high school, Jubilee has become a recluse, living the past nine years in the confines of the small town New Jersey house her unaffectionate mother left to her when she ran off with a Long Island businessman. But now her mother is dead, and without her financial support, Jubilee is forced to leave home and face the world -- and the people in it -- that she's been hiding from. One of those people is Eric Keegan, a man who just moved into town for work. With a daughter from his failed marriage who is no longer speaking to him, and a brilliant, if psychologically troubled, adopted son, Eric is struggling to figure out how his life got so off-course, and how to be the dad -- and man -- he wants so desperately to be. Then, one day, he meets a mysterious woman named Jubilee, with a unique condition

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