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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
A Smile Shy

A Smile Shy

Mendel, D. J.

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1678027766
ISBN13: 9781678027766
Publisher: Lulu Pr
Published: Mar 29 2020
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At Big Bass Lake and Mobile Homes, a development planted in the hill and abandoned like a crop gone bad, whiskey-soaked Weezal Peterson has worked hard to forget his past-and largely succeeded. Over the course of the story, several intertwining narratives-including a young woman's search for a husband after being accused of murdering the previous two; the meteoric rise of a colonial-era ink company; and the wavering convictions of a failed writer and farmer who expresses his despair by cooking fragrant meatballs-come crashing together in a rural Pennsylvania trailer park. In the conflagration, Weezal's history, and his future, are revealed to both the reader and to Weezal himself. Smart and sweet, poetic and wild-and delectably raunchy-A Smile Shy spares us none of the details of these characters' sorrows and horrors: poverty and addiction, loneliness and domestic violence. And yet every page is infused with both a crackling humor and an immense tenderness.

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