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322 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Summary |
"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. |
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Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
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Family secrets -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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Bildungsromans.
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FICTION / Contemporary Women.
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FICTION / Family Life.
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FICTION / Coming of Age.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Hepinstall, Kathy. Book of Polly New York, New York : Pamela Dorman Books, 2017 9780399562112 (DLC) 2017005428 |
| ISBN |
9780399562099 |
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0399562095 |
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