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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 is the author of ten novels and two works of nonfiction as well as many essays and short stories. Born in Syracuse, she has lived in Boston, Brooklyn, and New Haven. She now lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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More than one unwelcome change occurs in Dorothea Gilbert's settled life after her orphaned nephew, Hugo (a plump, good-natured 14-year-old who is the very antithesis of his bad-seed father), arrives at her isolated cottage with bags in hand. But if Dorrie has her doubts about becoming a mother at 38, Hugo wonders how he'll ever survive this enforced union with an aunt who doesn't even own a television. Without daily doses of his favorite soap opera, the long summer days spent alone while Dorrie works at the potter's wheel seem too grim to contemplate. And when Hugo finally makes friends with an opinionated, stringy-haired singer two years his senior, his aunt appears to disapprove of his choice. While Hugo moons hopelessly over his love and makes some unhappy discoveries about his parentage, Dorrie falls hard for Alex Willick, a tormented writer who makes clear his distaste for Hugo. Before succumbing to an overly neat ending, Florey's fourth novel (Family Matters, etc.) offers warm humor laced wtih a range of emotional nuance that does justice to her appealing characters. Foreign rights: Jane Cushman. January 28
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- Publication date2015
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