The Book of Polly: A Novel (Unabridged) The Book of Polly: A Novel (Unabridged)

The Book of Polly: A Novel (Unabridged‪)‬

    • 3.7 • 7 Ratings
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    • $14.99

Publisher Description

“Delightful. . . funny and poignant.” --People

With a kick like the best hot sauce, this is the laugh-out-loud story of a girl determined to keep up with her aging, crazy-as-a-fox mother

"If you ever pined for a mother who would take a hunting falcon as her wingman to a parent-teacher conference, Polly is the gal for you. Delicious." --Mark Childress, author of Crazy in Alabama 

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.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
JL
Jenna Lamia
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
09:19
hr min
RELEASED
2017
March 14
PUBLISHER
Penguin Audio
SIZE
571.4
MB

Customer Reviews

dlim04 ,

Perfectly, perfectly, perfect.

Couldn’t put it down. Besides being a moving story, it’s colorfully written with colloquialisms from the south mixed with brilliant metaphors.

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