''Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking'' is a novel by Aoibheann Sweeney, published in 2007 by

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. A girl grows up alone with her father on an island in Maine and is sent to stay in New York City with gay friends of her father's who open up her past, and her own world, in ways she cannot begin to imagine. The book was an Editor's Choice at the ''

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''. It also won a Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian Debut Fiction category at the

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. In a review in '' The Washington Post'', Ron Charles wrote about the way the book “taps into older, sometimes ancient stories...There’s real wisdom in these classic myths and there’s real talent in this sensitive novel.”Charles, Ron, July 29, 2007
"Island in the Storm,"
''The Washington Post''

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* ''Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking'' i

* ''Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking'' a

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