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A Novel of Lake Wobegon
Viking
September 2007
On Sale: September 11, 2007
256 pages
ISBN: 0670063568
EAN: 9780670063567
Hardcover
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A fresh and funny Lake Wobegon novel about a woman with a
secret life In Lake Wobegon lives a good Lutheran lady who is quite
prepared to die and wishes to be cremated and her ashes
placed inside a bowling ball and dropped into the lake, no
prayers, no hymns, thank you very much. Meanwhile, the
Detmer girl returns from California where she has made a
killing in veterinary aromatherapy to marry her boyfriend
Brent aboard Wally's pontoon boat, presided over by her
minister, Misty Naylor of the Sisterhood of the Sacred
Spirit. Brent arrives on Thursday. On Saturday, a
delegation of renegade Lutheran pastors from Denmark come to
town on their tour of America, their punishment for having
denied the divinity of Jesus. And Barbara Peterson, whose
mother, Evelyn, left the startling note about cremation and
the bowling ball, is in love with a lovely fat man who slips
around town in the dim light and reconnoiters with her at
the Romeo Motel. An the then there is Raoul of the cigars and tinted shades
and rainbow sportscoat and his long phone message ("Hey,
Precious") after the angel of death has already come and gone. All is in readiness for the wedding--the giant shrimp shish
kebabs, the French champagne, the wheels of imported cheese,
the pate with whole peppercorns, the hot-air balloon, the
flying Elvis, the pontoon boat, and the giant duck
decoys--and then something else happens. It is Lake Wobegon as you've imagined it--good loving people
who drive each other slightly crazy.
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