Download or read book Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking written by Aoibheann Sweeney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically acclaimed by reviewers across the country, Aoibheann Sweeney's beautifully written debut novel is a story of the profound human need for intimacy. For Miranda, the adolescence spent in her fog-shrouded Maine home has been stark and isolated-alone with her troubled father, a man consumed with his work translating Ovid's Metamorphoses, her mother mysteriously gone from their lives. Now, having graduated from high school, Miranda's father arranges for her to stay with old friends in Manhattan, and she embarks on a journey that will open up her father's past and her own world, in ways she cannot begin to imagine.