Author Description

You'll want to sit right down with this novel, put your feet up, and spend the whole afternoon in the best company you've enjoyed for quite a while. Extremely funny and very serious all at once, this book is about those who stay and those who leave -- about risk and safety, permanence and chance. Not to mention fudge turtle brownies and poodle costumes for a piano recital, and all the other small-town details which bring these characters lovingly to life. -- Lee Smith