Janice M. reviewed on 1/27/2007 + 19 more book reviews

From the book jacket: Mattie Ryder is marvelously neurotic, well-intentioned, funny, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry and broke. Her life at the moment is a wreck: her marriage has failed, her mother is failing, her house is rotting, her waist is expanding, her children are misbehaving, and she has a crush ona married man. Then she finds a small rubber blue show - nothing more than a gumball trinket - left behind by her father. For Mattie, it becomes a talisman - a chance to recognize the past for what it was, to se the future she always hoped it could be and to finally understand her family, herself and the ever-unfolding mystery of her sweet, sad and sometimes surprising life.

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