Some women shop. Some eat. Dora cures the blues by bingeing
on books--reading one after another, from Flaubert to bodice
rippers, for hours and days on end. In this wickedly funny
and sexy literary debut, we meet the beguiling, beautiful
Dora, whose unique voice combines a wry wit and
vulnerability as she navigates the road between reality and
fiction.
Dora, named after Eudora Welty, is an indiscriminate book
junkie whose life has fallen apart--her career, her
marriage, and finally
her self-esteem. All she has left is her love of literature,
and the book benders she relied on as a child. Ever since
her larger-than-life father wandered away and her
book-loving, alcoholic mother was left with two young
daughters, Dora and her sister, Virginia, have clung to each
other, enduring a childhood filled with literary pilgrimages
instead of summer vacations. Somewhere along the way
Virginia made the leap into the real world. But Dora isn’t
quite there yet. Now she’s coping with a painful separation
from her husband, scraping the bottom of a dwindling
inheritance, and attracted to a seductive book-seller who
seems to embody all that literature has to
offer--intelligent ideas, romance, and an escape from her
problems.
Joining Dora in her odyssey is an elderly society
hair-brusher, a heartbroken young girl, a hilarious
off-the-wall female teamster, and Dora’s mother, now on the
wagon, trying to make amends. Along the way Dora faces some
powerful choices. Between two irresistible men. Between
idleness and work. And most of all between the joy of
well-chosen words and the untidiness of real people and real
life.
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