Caring Is Creepy: A Novel

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In Georgia USA, 15 year old Lynn Marie Sugrue is having a difficult summer. Her mother has become involved in her pill-popping boyfriend's petty criminal activites, so she takes refuge in an online friendship with a troubled Marine, Logan. When he comes to visit, he's forced to stay over in a storage space only accessible by her and is listed AWOL. Realising she has found something in her life she can finally control, she takes his clothes, car keys and has his car towed. The two plotlines intersect with explosive consequences.

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Praise for Caring is Creepy

Alex Award Winner

"Lynns voice is authentically sardonic and compelling.... The intersections of Lynns and Logans story line with the consequences of Hayess shady dealings are consistently exciting."
Publishers Weekly

"David Zimmerman has written a beautifully menacing novel. I found itimpossible to stop readingas teenage girls flirt with danger online, an AWOL soldierhides out in acloset, anddrug deals go dead wrongand you will too, asthe danger steadily escalates,the sentencesunspooling like a detonator line thatsizzles toward an explosive, unforgettableending."
Benjamin Percy, author of The Wilding and Refresh, Refresh

"This story is sweet, funny, sad, infuriating, and all too real."
Tulsa Books Examiner

"An engrossing and unforgettable tale based on actual events.... Those who can empathize with flawed characters in dire situations will not be able to put this book down.
Library Journal

"When Zimmerman's characters get dirty, you feel the grit, and when they hurt, you feel the sting." Ames Tribune

[A]n insidious and deceiving but often sweet summertime ensnarement that is alternatively a tangled web and tendertrap. Blogcritics.org

Praise for David Zimmermans previous novel, The Sandbox

[A] gripping first novel.
The New York Times Book Review

[A] remarkable debut.... Zimmerman is a talent to watch.
Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW

Zimmerman adroitly depicts [Iraqs] isolated moonscapea place as liable to produce hallucinations and heat exhaustion as it is to churn up sandstorms that last for days.
Los Angeles Times

Author Bio

David Zimmerman was raised in Atlanta, Georgia. After receiving his MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama, he spent several years living and working in Brazil and Ethiopia. He now teaches at Iowa State University. His debut novel, The Sandbox, was released by Soho in 2010.