Judy H. (hart2hart) reviewed on 11/13/2006 + 711 more book reviews

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 if rotting, her waist is expanding, her children are misbehaving, and hse has a crush on a married man. Then she finds a small rubber blue shoe---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 see the future as she alwys 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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