Failure to Zigzag

Jane Vandenburgh. Avon Books, $8.94 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-380-71019-5

A Southern California teenager struggles for a normal life in the face of her mother's schizophrenia and her grandparents' eccentricity. PW praised this as ``a brilliant debut . . . startlingly idiosyncratic, intelligent, funny and painfully moving.'' (Nov.)

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