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Good Night, Oregon
Paperback
Series: Hope and Hometown, Book 1
ISBN13: 9781938531309
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Oct 1 2018
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Growing-up. Moving away. Coming Back. A funny, thought-provoking, head-banging journey.
In 1997. any visitor to Rain, Oregon will find long-buried secrets, crazy neighbors, a convent, a buffalo, a jailbird, and a sky full of beckoning stars.
Sophia Bolton can't wait to get out of the place.
At twenty-six, she dreams of saving humanity by traveling to the stars. She also considers herself the master of work-arounds. After all, she's escaped her sloth-thinking community several times, but family screwups--death, alcohol, stupidity, or all three--keep pulling her back to Oregon.
Now she's, struggling to finish her lifelong ticket to a different life--a PhD in physics--if only people would stop putting obstacles in her path.
On the night she sneaks into the campus radio station and makes a secret broadcast, it's simply a diversion to the tedium of school. It soon becomes an obsession. She can't explain why she's pirating the airways, risking her future, to share tales of how-to-survive growing up.
She says the stories are for the doubtful, insecure, or anyone who doesn't fit. She doesn't realize she's doing what she's always wanted--trying to save humanity.
Nor does she realize her stories will save herself.
A memorable story tale of humor, heartbreak, and inspiration.
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