The Book of Polly
  • Published:
    Mar-2017 (Hardcover)
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Women's Fiction
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    336
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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 chase 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?

The Book of Polly has a great blend of humor and sadness, pathos and hilarity. This is a bittersweet novel about the grip of love in a truly quirky family and you'll come to know one of the most unforgettable mother-daughter duos you've ever met.
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    • Mar-2018
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0399562109
    • ISBN13: 9780399562105
    • First Edition
    • Mar-2017
    • Penguin
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0399562095
    • ISBN13: 9780399562099
    •  
    • Mar-2017
    • Penguin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0399562117
    • ISBN13: 9780399562112
    •  
    • Mar-2017
    • Pamela Dorman Books
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Mar-2017
    • Thorndike Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1410497763
    • ISBN13: 9781410497765
    • Large Print



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