TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hepinstall,Kathy
TI  - The book of Polly: a novel 
SN  - 9780399562099 (hardcover)
AV  - PS3558.E577 B66 2017b
U1  - LP F HEP 
PY  - 2017///
PB  - Thorndike Press
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Dysfunctional families
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - FICTION / Contemporary Women
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Family Life
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - gsafd
N2  - "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?"--
ER  -