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In Louise Shaffer’s wonderfully enchanting brand-new novel, a hopeless romantic (and writer adrift) looks for a pleased ending—and chooses to create her own love story. After the success of her first novel, Love, Max—an irresistibly humorous take a look at divorce as observed via a dog’s eyes—Francesca’s imaginary tale becomes actual when her attractive shooter spouse bails on her. What's promising is the fact that Francesca gets custody of the condo and their dog—a devoted scamp who has perfected the-art of unconditional love. Nevertheless, a woman and her puppy need certainly to eat, so a determined look for revenue brings Francesca to Chicky, a spunky, reddish-haired octogenarian who desires Francesca to create the memoirs of her parents, Joe and Ellie, who toured the vaudeville circuit in the first 1920s.Francesca is hesitant to get the task, but Chicky’s stories quickly attract her right into a showbiz period as amazing and improbable whilst the love story that unfolds. As she re creates Joe and Ellie’s tale, Francesca displays, with amusing integrity, on her own youth and marriage—and finds just how to fit the bits of her life back together in ways that redefines himself and the real meaning of family and love.