Books author - "Barry Rachin"
According to Lester McSweeney, there are two things adolescent girls should never do: skip rocks when a fisherman is surf casting for stripe bass and make snide remarks about Louis L'Amour, the world's greatest cowboy writer. Tovah Moshel, the Israeli girl, struck out on both counts.
Ava Frick works second shift at the Texaco Gas Mart. When business is slow, she reads the Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, and drops the I Ching. The other day she got five broken lines __ __ and one solid ____. Not a good omen!
Muriel Beagle was an awful piano teacher. An abomination! Thirty minutes - that's all she allotted per lesson, and most days she started late or was interrupted by one of her bratty kids bursting in unannounced. Lost time was never recouped on the back end of the lesson, and once, the music teacher even took a cell phone call and it wasn't an emergency. So unprofessional!
Bethany Glaspell approached the first-ever meeting with Great-uncle Vern, a man who returned from the jungles of Vietnam with a Hmong bride and warped personality, much as a cat burglar might plan his next heist, telling no one, neither friend nor family, her intentions.
Beatrice Goldberg doesn't much like Hispanics, biker broads, Franciscan monks, skinheads, or even salt-of-the-earth blue collar types, but she is going to get a double dose of all of the above, when she visits Our Lady of La Salette Shrine in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
When Ronda Wickford, the assistant manager of Brandenbergβs ShopRite Supermarket, inadvertently hires a middle-age man with a PhD in philosophy to run the fresh produce department, weird things begin to happen. As events unfold, she learns a thing or two about Wittgensteinβs linguistic theories, common decency and how to fix a leaky faucet.
According to Lester McSweeney, there are two things adolescent girls should never do: skip rocks when a fisherman is surf casting for stripe bass and make snide remarks about Louis L'Amour, the world's greatest cowboy writer. Tovah Moshel, the Israeli girl, struck out on both counts.
Ava Frick works second shift at the Texaco Gas Mart. When business is slow, she reads the Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, and drops the I Ching. The other day she got five broken lines __ __ and one solid ____. Not a good omen!
Muriel Beagle was an awful piano teacher. An abomination! Thirty minutes - that's all she allotted per lesson, and most days she started late or was interrupted by one of her bratty kids bursting in unannounced. Lost time was never recouped on the back end of the lesson, and once, the music teacher even took a cell phone call and it wasn't an emergency. So unprofessional!
Bethany Glaspell approached the first-ever meeting with Great-uncle Vern, a man who returned from the jungles of Vietnam with a Hmong bride and warped personality, much as a cat burglar might plan his next heist, telling no one, neither friend nor family, her intentions.
Beatrice Goldberg doesn't much like Hispanics, biker broads, Franciscan monks, skinheads, or even salt-of-the-earth blue collar types, but she is going to get a double dose of all of the above, when she visits Our Lady of La Salette Shrine in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
When Ronda Wickford, the assistant manager of Brandenbergβs ShopRite Supermarket, inadvertently hires a middle-age man with a PhD in philosophy to run the fresh produce department, weird things begin to happen. As events unfold, she learns a thing or two about Wittgensteinβs linguistic theories, common decency and how to fix a leaky faucet.