Download or read book Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking written by Aoibheann Sweeney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised by a brilliant but elusive scholar father after the abandonment of her mother at the age of three, Miranda emerges from a childhood marked by loneliness and a vivid fantasy life when she is sent away to live with her father's friends in Manhattan.