Two Over Easy All Day Long

Shari Lane

ISBN 10: 1952232864 / ISBN 13: 9781952232862

Published by Golden Antelope Press, 2024

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When the president of a toy company, guilty of a tragic negligence, is sentenced to a year of minimum-wage work in an Oregon diner, he loses his familiar Manhattan privileges. But Giles, now Tony, Gibson gradually learns to appreciate the tangles and complexities of ordinary lives, and those who somehow manage to keep on going with compassion and wit. The diner's (secretly kindhearted) boss has other secrets too, as does the curmudgeonly cook. (He'd gone AWOL from Vietnam half a century earlier.) Much of the novel is set in the Sunnyside Up Diner, where staff and clients mingle. There's a drug ring just outside town, headed by the ex-sheriff, a lavender farm whose workers tend to be undocumented, a gay couple who aren't quite in or out of the closet. Each character is an individual, created uniquely by Shari Lane's colors, textures, language, subtle symbols, and deep sense of balance.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Two Over Easy All Day Long
• Publisher: Golden Antelope Press
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1952232864
• ISBN 13: 9781952232862
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Giles Anthony Maurice Gibson, Manhattanite and president of ABC Toys, floats through life on a cloud of wealth and privilege. Until now. When his company's negligence results in tragedy, the judge, weary of a world where justice is rarely served, sentences Giles to a year of community service in rural Oregon, and supervised work at Sunnyside Up, a local diner. Renamed "Tony," and fitted with an ankle monitor to keep him in his place, he must find a way to make amends for the consequences of always choosing the easy way.

Shortly after Giles-learning-to-be-Tony arrives, the curmudgeonly cook finds a dead body in the dumpster behind the restaurant. Tony and the other misfits at the diner are soon suspects, but—though they will eventually work together to figure out "whodunnit"—Two Over Easy All Day Long isn't a murder mystery, it's a human mystery, asking how far a person can bend before breaking, and whether breaking isn't the point, after all.

About the Author

Lawyer, teacher, writer, possibilist. In these divided and divisive times, Shari Lane believes in the power of stories to build bridges, as we see through another's eyes, and feel through the beating of another's heart. 

Wherever and whenever possible, Shari surrounds herself with readers and writers. Shari sits on the local library board of trustees, hosts an open mic for writers, and she is the managing editor for SHARK REEF Literary Magazine.

In addition to Two Over Easy All Day Long and the UnFairy Tale series for middle grade readers, Shari's short stories have appeared in literary magazines including Adelaide, Cape Magazine, Antithesis, Evening Street Review, and others.