Eliot's BananaThings should be peachy. Junie isn't entirely sure what her problem is. She's just moved into a Brooklyn apartment with her cool longtime boyfriend Leon, a drummer who adores her. She flits through a string of temp jobs in funky thrift store clothes. But beneath her veneer of quirky humor there's a nagging feeling of dissatisfaction about her life. She's about to go bananas. When Junie meets Eliot, who is twice her age, and his cat, Alfie, at the vet's office, she's convinced she's found the zest missing in her life. A burnt-out sci-fi writer in search of a muse, Eliot is apples to Leon's oranges. It's not long before Junie's standing in his kitchen being offered a banana...and then some. Losing herself in the mayhem of a fling, Junie slowly realizes that kinky diversions are a poor distraction from what's really eating her. Only when she stops obsessing about Eliot and starts peeling away the layers of her family's past will she see that what she really wants has been waiting for her all along...and that her future's ripe with possibilities. |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 12 | |
Chapter Three | 19 |
Chapter Four | 28 |
Chapter Five | 38 |
Chapter Six | 50 |
Chapter Seven | 59 |
Chapter Eight | 73 |
Chapter Twenty | 171 |
Chapter TwentyOne | 178 |
Chapter TwentyTwo | 189 |
Chapter TwentyThree | 196 |
Chapter TwentyFour | 209 |
Chapter TwentyFive | 220 |
Chapter TwentySix | 224 |
Chapter TwentySeven | 229 |
Chapter Nine | 81 |
Chapter Ten | 86 |
Chapter Eleven | 102 |
Chapter Twelve | 110 |
Chapter Thirteen | 115 |
Chapter Fourteen | 121 |
Chapter Fifteen | 129 |
Chapter Sixteen | 136 |
Chapter Seventeen | 149 |
Chapter Eighteen | 156 |
Chapter Nineteen | 165 |
Chapter TwentyNine | 241 |
Chapter Thirty | 249 |
Chapter ThirtyOne | 255 |
Chapter ThirtyTwo | 266 |
Chapter ThirtyThree | 281 |
Chapter ThirtyFour | 287 |
Chapter ThirtyFive | 295 |
Chapter ThirtySix | 298 |
Onanistic QA | 307 |
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