The Book of Polly: A Novel

Synopsis

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?-- Kathy Hepinstall.