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Ballantine Books
December 2006
On Sale: November 28, 2006
368 pages ISBN: 0345460995 EAN: 9780345460998 Paperback
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Fiction
Diane Hammond’s beautifully rendered description of life
in the fictional small town of Hubbard, Oregon, won her
plaudits for Going to Bend, her debut novel. In
Homesick Creek, Hammond returns to Hubbard and
captivates us once again with a cast of characters so vivid
we feel like we’ve known them all our lives.
Anita and Bunny have been friends since high
school, when Anita was a beauty queen runner-up and Bunny a
sweet single mother with average looks. They were both taken
by surprise when the handsome, charismatic Hack Neary chose
Bunny to be his wife. A natural-born salesman, Hack now
works his charms at the local car dealership, and he and
Bunny enjoy a very comfortable life. But after sixteen years
of excusing Hack’s white lies, Bunny is more shaken than
she’d like to be by his dangerous new flirtation and her
rising suspicions that Hack never meant to put down roots in
Hubbard.
Anita has also married, but unlike Hack and
Bunny, she and her husband are barely scraping by. Bob isn’t
ambitious enough to properly support his wife and daughter.
He is, however, constant in his love: for Anita, still
beautiful in his eyes despite the toll of age, work, and
poverty; for his daughter and granddaughter, who need more
than the couple can provide; and for Warren, his best friend
since they were poor and unwanted children in the same
trailer park.
Facing a future that seems increasingly
difficult, the friends turn to one another and find reserves
of love and strength that help heal the wounds they
inadvertently inflict on each other. At the deepest point of
her grief, Bunny realizes, “If you loved somebody once, no
matter how long ago, that had to be worth something.”
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