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Dancing on the edge of the roof
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345459305 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 034545930X
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Physical Description:
226 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : One World/Ballantine, 2002.
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| Subject: | Diners (Restaurants) Fiction African American women Fiction |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | K WILLI S (Text) | 33126025033394 | KY Fiction | Available | - |
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After a life of crime and poverty in her home town of Columbus, Ohio, Juanita Lewis, craving a simpler life, drops everything to move to Montana. - Random House, Inc.
âDancing on the Edge of the Roof kept my heart and mind dancing through the pages. Sheila Williams, with her talent for detailed storytelling, expertly takes the reader on a poignant and humorous quest for self.ââLori Bryant-Woolridge, author of Read Between the Lies
At forty-one, Juanita Lewis is running away from home, courtesy of a one-way ticket to Montana, a place that seems about as far away from the violence and poverty of the Columbus, Ohio, projects as the moon. She wants adventure and excitementâif such things exist for a pre-menopausal African American woman with three grown, deadbeat children.
Juanitaâs new life in Paper Moon, Montana, begins at a local diner where a culinary face-off with chef and owner Jess Gardiner finds Juanita in front of Jessâs stove serving up home cookinâ that lures the townsfolk like a magic spell. And suddenly Juanita, who was just passinâ through, now has a job by popular demand.
Out here in this wide-open space, Juanitaâs heart can no longer hide, especially when she sees herself through the eyes of the wonderful and eccentric people of this down-to-earth town. Sheâs happy in Paper Moon; sheâs found a home, but can she stay? And then thereâs Jess. She has always dreamed of romance, but she never planned on falling in love.