false 6375689 1 <DIV><DIV>The two silent Ss of Des Moines beckon twenty-three-year-old Vivette with a sexy finger, a promise. So, in the mid–1990s, she convinces Grandpa Joe-Joe to sell his Buick for twenty dollars, leaves behind her friends, her job at a hip New England bakery, and an affair with a married man, and moves to Iowa. Margaret, who left the same bakery years earlier on her own restless quest, offers pointers from her cautiously settled Nebraska life.<DIV> <DIV>In a story of lust and longing, love and loneliness, disappointment and desire stretching from the East Coast to the West, these two pioneering women navigate through secrets, lies, decisions, and compromises shared over pool tables, postcards, and shots of whiskey. Starting up, starting over, slowing down, they crisscross each other’s lives like highways on a map, always escaping, flying toward a dreamt future, and trying to avoid the charted course.</DIV> (20090226) 6563338 1 9 2009 Reconsidering Happiness: A Novel (Flyover Fiction) total:9|5:3|4:3|3:2|2:1|1:0| 9 35 64 4 0 1 false false Thu Apr 02 07:00:05 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 14:34:47 -0700 2009
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