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Plot Summary of Separation Anxiety
"Since childhood, Wichita Gray and Jonah KiaLos have been virtually inseparable. As teenagers, they leave they small-town home and move to Chicago. Now, a dozen years later, Wichita worries that she has become too reliant on Jonz, and that their personalities have been twisted together for so long that they won't be able to exist without one another. Wichita worries over how to sever the bond between them, worries that her inability to cope without Jonah will turn her into her mother, and finds the perfect "scalpel" in a friendly bartender at a club where she and Jonah spend a lot of evenings. In response, Jonah quits his job at the museum where they both work, but Wichita talks him out of it, saying she will leave.

In the midst of this is Wichita's struggle with her dysfunctional family--the reason she ran away so long ago. Now, her sister, Geena, sixteen and pregnant, has shown up at Wichita's Chicago apartment, looking for support. Wichita and Geena clash almost instantly, and after quitting her job, Wichita takes the car Geena and her boyfriend "borrowed" to come and drives the two of them back to Hove, her hometown. Once there, stranded by her lack of car and the miscarriage that sends Geena into the hospital, Wichita confronts a lot of memories, as well as her mother, and comes to realize that, though children may come up against their parents' mistakes, they are not doomed to repeat them--and that she really, really doesn't want to live without Jonah."
Sarrah, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Separation Anxiety
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Plot
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Time/era of story - present (2000-2010)
Other aspects: - best friends
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Ethnic/regional/gender life Yes

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - writer
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental Yes
Eccentric: - emotionally unstable
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - none

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 2 ()
United States Yes
The US: - Midwest
City? Yes
City: - Chicago
Small town? Yes

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references
Unusual Style: - a lot of flashback and forwards - a lot of stream of consciousness
Amount of dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
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