Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack Setting

M. E. Kerr (Marijane Meaker)
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Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack Setting

M. E. Kerr (Marijane Meaker)
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The story takes place in Brooklyn, New York, in the late 1960s or early 1970s.

Fifteen-year-old Tucker Woolf and his family have recently moved to Brooklyn from Manhattan. A status-conscious, middle-class couple, Mr. and Mrs. Woolf instruct Tucker to refer to their neighborhood as "Brooklyn Heights," thinking it sounds more prestigious than "Brooklyn." Tucker's father has just lost his job as a fundraiser and developed an allergy to cats, so Tucker is forced to give away his nine-month-old calico cat, Nader, named after consumer activist Ralph Nader.

Susan "Dinky" Hocker, an overweight fourteen-year-old, gives Nader a new home—and a new diet. To Tucker's dismay, Nader grows as fat and sluggish as Dinky. When Tucker visits Dinky to demand that she stop inflicting her problems on the cat, he meets Dinky's cousin, Natalia Line, a quiet, oldfashioned-looking girl to whom he is immediately attracted.

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