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Geese to a Poor Market
Geese to a Poor Market is a literary fiction set in the Ozarks in 1955. Rita Sanders leaves her cheating husband and returns to her childhood home. She lands a job at a honky-tonk on the outskirts of a dry bible-belt village owned by a retired navy petty officer. Rita's religious mother disapproves and accuses her of driving her geese to a poor market. With the reappearanc...more
Paperback, First, 292 pages
Published
September 15th 2010
by High Hill Press
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Lonnie Whitaker blends whimsy and mayhem in this engaging tale of life in the 1950s Missouri Ozarks.
Rita Sanders is a resilient woman who hasn’t entirely lost her rebellious streak with age. When she once again catches her two-timing, hard-drinking husband, Ray, with another woman, she decides he’s had a few chances too many. With her young son, Wesley, she hits the road and heads for her childhood home—and presumably safe haven—in Tremont, Missouri.
Rita’s father, Will, is a weathered farmer wit...more
Rita Sanders is a resilient woman who hasn’t entirely lost her rebellious streak with age. When she once again catches her two-timing, hard-drinking husband, Ray, with another woman, she decides he’s had a few chances too many. With her young son, Wesley, she hits the road and heads for her childhood home—and presumably safe haven—in Tremont, Missouri.
Rita’s father, Will, is a weathered farmer wit...more
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A sweet little book that left me wanting more.
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