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EPISODE · Mar 14, 2017 · 9H 20M

Listen to The Book of Polly: A Novel by Kathy Hepinstall

from Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of Age · host Kathy Hepinstall

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/285024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Polly: A Novel Author: Kathy Hepinstall Narrator: Jenna Lamia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: March 14, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Delightful. . . funny and poignant.” --People With 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 '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  Willow 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.  Willow 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? The 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.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/285024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Polly: A Novel Author: Kathy Hepinstall Narrator: Jenna Lamia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: March 14, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Delightful. . . funny and poignant.” --People With 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 '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  Willow 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.  Willow 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? The 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.

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