Someone to Crawl Back to By Phillip Gardner 9781886420984 (Paperback)

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Short stories

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Wordery

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Boson books

Someone to Crawl Back to : 9781886420984 : 01 Jan 1900 : SOMEONE TO CRAWL BACK TO is a novel-in-stories, a collection of hearts in search of what theyve always wanted or what theyve eternally lost. Set in small town South Carolina, those hearts belong to wrecker drivers, drive-thru fast food workers, college professors, bartenders, insurance and mobile homes salesmen. Their common ground is The Paradise Lounge. The death of a marriage, Joshua and Rene Serverances, forms the spine of the book, but included in this small community of seekers are George Scarborough and his softball-playing wife; Evander Baker, who helps his sister bury a bag of chocolate chip cookies near the septic line; and Warren Oxendine, whose wife buys a vibrator at a yard sale. Structured more like a Robert Altman film than a traditional novel, reading SOMEONE TO CRAWL BACK TO is like going to The Paradise Lounge for a drink, slipping inside a patrons skin, going home with that person, then coming back to The Parad

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