Reconsidering Happiness
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Series: Flyover Fiction
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ISBN10: 0803225210
ISBN13: 9780803225213
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: Sep 1 2009
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.38
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780803225213
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: Sep 1 2009
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.38
Language: English
The two silent Ss of Des Moines beckon twenty-three-year-old Vivette with a sexy finger, a promise. So, in the mid-1990s, she convinces Grandpa Joe-Joe to sell his Buick for twenty dollars, leaves behind her friends, her job at a hip New England bakery, and an affair with a married man, and moves to Iowa. Margaret, who left the same bakery years earlier on her own restless quest, offers pointers from her cautiously settled Nebraska life. In a story of lust and longing, love and loneliness, disappointment and desire stretching from the East Coast to the West, these two pioneering women navigate through secrets, lies, decisions, and compromises shared over pool tables, postcards, and shots of whiskey. Starting up, starting over, slowing down, they crisscross each other's lives like highways on a map, always escaping, flying toward a dreamt future, and trying to avoid the charted course.
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