{"product_id":"the-book-of-polly-a-novel-1","title":"The Book of Polly: A Novel","description":"“Delightful. . . funny and poignant.” --People\n\nWith a kick like the best hot sauce, this is the laugh-out-loud story of a girl determined to keep up with her aging, crazy-as-a-fox mother\n\n\"If you ever pined for a mother who would take a hunting falcon as her wingman to a parent-teacher conference, Polly is the gal for you. Delicious.\" --Mark Childress, author of Crazy in Alabama\n\nWillow 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 chase 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.\n\nWillow 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?\n\nThe Book of Polly has a great blend of humor and sadness, pathos and hilarity. This is a bittersweet novel about the grip of love in a truly quirky family and you’ll come to know one of the most unforgettable mother-daughter duos you’ve ever met., ISBN13:9780399562099 ISBN10:0399562095 Material Type:hardcover","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615905571123,"sku":"FA_09-03-25_ART_20000GGJ","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0748\/5086\/1363\/files\/61BB8l07_6L.jpg?v=1783327990","url":"https:\/\/cheapbookdepot.com\/products\/the-book-of-polly-a-novel-1","provider":"Cheap Book Depot","version":"1.0","type":"link"}