Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking is a novel by Aoibheann Sweeney. A girl grows up alone with her father on an island in Maine and is sent to stay in New York City with friends of her father's who open up her past, and her own world, in ways she cannot begin to imagine. It was published by Penguin Press in 2007 and was an Editor’s Choice at the New York Times Book Review and the recipient of a 2007 Lambda Literary Award.

In a lengthy 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.”

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External Links

• Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking in The New York Times Sunday Book Review
  
• Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking at the Penguin Press