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Aaron, approximately

Zachary Lazar

1998342 pagesabout 5–8 hours
1998
first published
  • 1998ReganBooks · 342 pages · ENGISBN 9780060392116
  • 1999HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9780380732135

Aaron, Approximately, first-time novelist Zachary Lazar's uniquely poignant coming-of-age novel, tells with heart-wrenching clarity the story of Aaron Bright, a fiercely intelligent and resilient young man struggling toward self-acceptance, identity, and human connection in the aftermath of his father's death. When twenty-six-year-old Aaron's relationship with his girlfriend, Clarisse, threatens to crumble, he revisits the trials of his past in an attempt to unearth the root of his lifelong alienation. Aaron, Approximately powerfully details the narrator's moving and often darkly humorous journey out of isolation and self-doubt and into adulthood.

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