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\nBook Summary:
\nWillow 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 shoot varmints\, drink margaritas\, and antagonize the neighbors and she sticks out like a sore thumb among the young modern mothers of the ir 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 afterthoug ht. 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 bi gger-than-life Polly.
\nWillow is desperately hungry for clues to th e 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 possi bly 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?
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