The book of Polly : a novel / Kathy Hepinstall.
"The laugh-out-loud story of a girl determined to keep up with her aging, crazy-as-a-fox mother and learn the truth of her mother's long-secret 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 bigger-than-life Polly. Willow is desperately hungry for clues to the family life that preceded her, and especially Polly's 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?"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780399562099 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 322 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, New York : Pamela Dorman Books, 2017.
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Subject: | Dysfunctional families > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. Mothers and daughters > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Stroud Branch | FIC Hepin | 31681010045557 | FICTION | Available | - |