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This lively, intricately plotted, laugh-out-loud funny, and surprisingly touching family drama combines the wit of Carl Hiaasen with the southern charm of Jill McCorkle. Seventy-seven-year-old Marylou Ahearn is going to kill Dr. Wilson Spriggs come hell or high water. In 1953, he gave her a radioactive cocktail without her consent as part of a secret government study that had horrible consequences. Marylou has been plotting her revenge for fifty years. When she accidentally discovers his whereabouts in Florida, her plans finally snap into action. She high tails it to hot and humid Tallahassee, moves in down the block from where a now senile Spriggs lives with his daughter's family, and begins the tricky work of insinuating herself into their lives. But she has no idea what a nest of yellow jackets she is stum-bling into. Before the novel is through, someone will be kidnapped, an unlikely couple will get engaged, someone will nearly die from eating a pineapple upside-down cake laced with anti-freeze, and that's not all . . . Told from the varied perspectives of an incredible cast of endearing oddball characters and written with the flair of a native Floridian, this dark comedy does not disappoint.

Thirty-six years after giving up her job as a mermaid in the underwater pagents of Florida's Mermaid Springs, Grendy returns for a reunion and is hired for a starring role in the 'Mermaids on the Moon' Labor Day show, until her mysterious disappearance brings her daughter to Mermaid City to find out what happened and to take her mother's role in the extravaganza. By the author of The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Thirty-six years after giving up her job as a mermaid in the underwater pagents of Florida's Mermaid Springs, Grendy returns for a reunion and is hired for a starring role in the 'Mermaids on the Moon' Labor Day show, until her mysterious disappearance brings her daughter to Mermaid City to find out what happened and to take her mother's role in the extravaganza. By the author of The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa.

A collection of quirky midwestern tales introduces a set of grieving parents who want their dead son's teacher to write poetry and pretend he wrote it, a mother who drives into a blizzard to find her lost husband, and a dog psychic named 'Junior.' A first collection. Reprint. 17,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

A collection of quirky midwestern tales introduces a set of grieving parents who want their dead son's teacher to write poetry and pretend he wrote it, a mother who drives into a blizzard to find her lost husband, and a dog psychic named 'Junior.' A first collection. (view table of contents)