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(More customer reviews)This book captures mixing the happy, enveloping together family that I grew up in. Most accurate presentation of Brookings, SD that will be captured between the pages of book. She understands the people so well.
Felt I knew the characters very well. Totally believable, developed characters.
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Stevie O'Neill, a young LA actress, recklessly marries visiting Robert Andersonand follows him to South Dakota. There, she discovers that her Hispanic/Irishancestry doesn't bother her blue-eyed blonde in-laws, but her lack of domesticskills does—a situation Mom Anderson is determined to correct.
This orphaned, metropolitan smartass becomes an unwilling Martha Stewart ina student trailer park—but her life is not all drudgery. In Los Angeles she's a gruntin an army of wannabe celebrities; in South Dakota she's a star because of abeer commercial. Her brief fame even gets her a teaching job at the University.
Stevie's new existence is filled with adventures most city girls neverexperience—or want to. She goes pheasant hunting; she survives blizzards; shedrives the Hereford Queen in the Homecoming parade. She's thrown into anextended family circle and learns to deal with all that goes with family life.
In the first year of an impulsive, hormone-driven marriage punctuated bymisunderstandings and reconciliations, Stevie discovers that her PrinceCharming has skid marks in his tights. Should she stick with him? At least for onemore year?
"...engaging and believable. Stevie is an appealing heroine."—Kirkus Discoveries
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