Description

In this highly driven book set around the roads, porches and in the shops of 1960s Kansas, Mary Monroe brings alive the relationship between two women from opposite sides of the songs--and the shattering function that changes their lives forever.At one's heart of the tale is Annette Goode, a shy, awkward woman who keeps a dreadful secret. Mr. Boatwright, the boarder her hard-working mother has had in, abuses her everyday. Embarrassed and scared, Annette withdraws right into a world of food and books.