Reading Challenge, Book 6
Staggerford
Hassler, Jon
A native Minnesotan writing c. my birth.
Includes these gems:
"With coffee, Miss McGee served cake and chokecherry jelly. It was noon before Lillian Kite went home and Miles carried the ranger uniform upstairs to his room." (To me, that says it all about snall town life, and it's the Minnesota I'm looking forward to.)
"Rochester girls are the best looking and Duluth girls will show you the best time, but you have to tell them you’re from Minneapolis before they’ll look at you."
"Everyone was down in the lunchroom, standing in line for butter sandwiches and hamburger-macaroni-tomato hot dish."
"To a man with a dry socket, what is more dismaying than a raspberry sundae?"
Spoiler alert: the high school teacher protagonist gets shot in the head.