The Book of Polly
β Scribed by Hepinstall, Kathy
- Book ID
- 109899449
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 448 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780399562099
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β¦ Synopsis
For readers of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, Joshilyn Jackson, and Fannie Flagg, with a touch of Terms of Endearment
A laugh-out-loud funny yet poignant novel about a daughter determined not only to keep her mother among the living but to find out the secrets of her long-buried past
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 shoot varmints, drink margaritas, and antagonize the neighbors--and 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 she's here by accident, a late-life afterthought. Willow's father died before she was born, her much older brother and sister are long grown and gone and failing elsewhere: it's just her and her bigger-than-life mom, Polly.
Willow is desperately hungry for clues to the...
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