The book of Polly : a novel
Book
"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?"--
Available copies
- 9 of 9 copies available at Westchester Library System.
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| Chappaqua Library | FICTION HEPINSTALL (Text) Fiction |
31005500406600 |
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| Dobbs Ferry Public Library | HEPINSTALL (Text) Fiction |
31007151288311 |
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| Katonah Village Library | FICTION HEPINSTALL (Text) Fiction |
31013151702780 |
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| New Rochelle Public Library | HEPINSTALL (Text) Fiction |
31019156179486 |
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| Ossining Public Library | FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31021153080964 |
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| Scarsdale Public Library | FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31029153722089 |
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| The Field Library | HEPINSTA, K. (Text) Fiction |
31022151988059 |
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| Town of Pelham Public Library | HEPINSTALL (Text) Fiction |
31023151171837 |
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| Warner Library | FICTION HEPINSTALL (Text) Fiction |
31033151886524 |
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