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(More customer reviews)Once I started this book, I couldn't put it down. The imagery is wonderful; the tone evocative, warm, and often funny. If you live below the Mason Dixon line you KNOW the character of Judy Duncan very well, or maybe, even ARE her. (Unfortunately the character of Hamp is all too recognizable also.) Judy wears so many hats, not even she can keep count. All her many identities are defined by this far-reaching family. In fact, if I had any problem with this book, it was with trying to keep straight who were cousins or aunts or in-laws. Like a good mom, wife, sister, daughter, cousin, friend, niece, employee, employer, she keeps exceedingly busy trying to fix or fix-up things, while her own foundation is being chipped away at until it finally starts to crumble. She keeps busy at this fixing business, installing a window in a drab wall; not only giving her sister a bridesmaid's luncheon but remodeling a country club room in order to have it there; chaperoning aunts; cleaning the trailer; canning a summer's worth of vegetables in one day, until she ultimately realizes not everything can or even should be fixed. This is a great read!
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