β Scribed by Barthelme, Frederick
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A fiftyish graphic designer forced into retirement discovers, via a parade of unlikely events, that it may still be a lovely day in the neighborhood, by "the master of the low-key epiphany." (The New Yorker)
Wallace Webster lives alone in Kemah, Texas at Forgetful Bay, an upscale, southern condo development where residents are passing away at an alarming rate. Divorced, he monitors events in the neighborhood there on Galveston Bay, keeping in touch with his ex-wife, his grown daughter, and a younger former coworker, for whom he has much-averted eyes. As things go haywire in the community, Wallace meets an age-appropriate and somewhat exotic (and possibly criminal) resident who is no stranger to death herself. Finding each other simpatico, they commence an off-beat affair that begins with Wallace locked in an Airstream trailer attached to the roof of her restaurant. Together with these principals and an eccentric supporting cast, Wallace sifts through the
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