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Every Last Cuckoo
Kate Maloy
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Hardcover, 277 pages; 2008
$18.36
It's rare to find a novel in which a seventy-something woman is the heroine, but Every Last Cuckoo gives us Sarah Lucas, a smart and sassy septuagenarian living in the Vermont woods. When Sarah's beloved husband dies, her grief temporarily paralyzes her. But she soon finds that her family, friends, and even strangers need her. The big house that seemed hollow and empty after Sarah's husband's death becomes a haven to wayfarers seeking shelter. Kate Maloy has managed to avoid creating the stereotypical doddering "old lady"of fiction: Sarah is neither cloyingly sweet nor mean and bitter. How refreshing!
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