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Anybody Any Minute (2008)

by Julie Mars(Favorite Author)

3.5 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0312378696 (ISBN13: 9780312378691)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

St. Martin's Press

review 1: Book Jacket:Ellen Kenny has some unexpected free time on her handsbecause she's just been fired for not controlling her bigmouth. A bit disgruntled with life in New York and a bitrestless in her long marriage, she heads off to Montrealto visit her sister. But on the way, she spots a decrepithouse, impulsively buys it, and moves there for thesummer. Expecting to become a woman-who-runs-with-the-wolves, she finds herself catapulted into a comedy of theabsurd instead. She befriends two local rednecks--an ex-biker and an aging chainsaw sculptor--and, by a twist offate, becomes the full-time caregiver to her sister'stoddler. With all her familiar inner and outer landmarksremoved, Ellen careens, crawls, skips, and trudges towardher goal: emotional and, perhaps, even spiritualequ... moreanimity.
review 2: In Julie Mars' novel I literally laughed out loud every few pages, constantly surprised by the author's dead-on language and descriptions of characters. There's a certain Wizard of Oz quality to this story in which the female protagonist sets out on a completely new path. As fate has it, she must learn to let her old self and new self intertwine and grow in the same direction like the tomatoes that sprout up in her new garden. Sometimes it's not about the differences between the city and the country but more about how you take ownership for what lies on the road in between. Overall, I found this book thoroughly satisfying, like a full-bodied Saranac Black&Tan that you drink on the porch of an old cottage. It made me thirsty for summer and road trips and gardens and Montreal. less

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