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Dorrie Gilbert, a potter who lives alone, is completely unprepared for motherhood when her oddball, overweight, and orphaned nephew, Hugo, comes to live with her, demanding to know the truth about his parents and horrified that she doesn’t own a television so he can watch the soap opera he’s devoted to. As Dorrie and Hugo attempt to work things out, each learns some hard and surprising, but deeply satisfying truths about real life.
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Kitty Burns Florey
Kitty Burns Florey is the author of twelve novels, including Solos, Souvenir of Cold Springs, Vigil for a Stranger, and, most recently, the historical novels The Writing Master and its sequel, Amity Street. Her two nonfiction books, Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences, and Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting, were best sellers. She has also published many short stories and essays. She has lived in Amherst, Massachusetts, since 2012.
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