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Pamela Dorman
March 2017
On Sale: March 14, 2017
336 pages
ISBN: 0399562095
EAN: 9780399562099
Kindle: B01HNJIJ44
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Women's Fiction
Willow Havens is ten years old and obsessed with the fear that her mother will die. Her mother, Polly, is a cantankerous, take-no-prisoners Southern woman who lives to chase varmints, drink margaritas, and antagonize the neighborsβand she sticks out like a sore thumb among the young modern mothers of their small conventional Texas town. She was in her late fifties when Willow was born, so Willow knows sheβs here by accident, a late-life afterthought. Willowβs father died before she was born, her much older brother and sister are long grown and gone and failing elsewhere. Itβs just her and bigger-than-life Polly. Willow is desperately hungry for clues to the family life that preceded her, and especially Pollyβs life pre- Willow. Why did she leave her hometown of Bethel, Louisiana, fifty years ago and vow never to return? Who is Garland Jones, her long-ago suitor who possibly killed a man? And will Polly be able to outrun the Bear, the illness that finally puts her on a collision course with her past? The Book of Polly has a great blend of humor and sadness, pathos and hilarity. This is a bittersweet novel about the grip of love in a truly quirky family and youβll come to know one of the most unforgettable mother-daughter duos youβve ever met.
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