Aaron Cutler Memorial Library

Lorna Landvik's Tall Pine Polka provides fodder for discussion for the upcoming May 6th meeting of All Booked Up. To make things extra special, the group will also speak with Landvik during the meeting via telephone!

In Tall Pine Polka, "Landvik invites readers to belly up to the counter and join the regulars sipping coffee at Cup O'Delight Caf in Tall Pine, Minn. In this swift-moving romp, Lee O'Leary, the Cup O'Delight owner, is a 210-lb., 40-year-old redhead who fetched up in this north woods tourist town three years ago while fleeing her abusive stockbroker husband. Lee's coffee shop is the daily rendezvous for idiosyncratic locals: shoemaker Pete, suffering unrequited love for Lee; Mary Gore, famous for her bad poetry; Slim, the barking 'Nam vet; and lesbian couple Frau Katte and Miss Penk. When Hollywood invades Tall Pine, the eccentric population triples. Location scouts for a grade-B flick, Ike and Inga, find their perfect leading lady in the book's central figure, 22-year-old Fenny Ness. Ever since her adventurous parents died in an accident in Belize, Fenny has run the local bait and craft shops. Fenny is reluctant, but her friends persuade her to take the Hollywood plunge. Lacking guile or malice, plainspoken Fenny transforms the Hollywood types, standing up to a tyrannical director, flooring more than one nasty talk-show host, and making life-long friends of the other actors. Meanwhile, Fenny struggles to win and keep the man she loves: Big Bill, a half-Polynesian, half-Chippewa musician and athlete, who floats into town to reconnect with his Indian heritage and stirs up romantic rivalries between Fenny and Lee." (From Publisher's Weekly, Sept. 1999)

Pick up your copy at the Main Desk and join the group at the library on Wednesday, May 6th at 6:15 p.m. Please note this is 15 minutes earlier than usual to give everyone time to settle in before the author call at 6:30 p.m.

Coming up next: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.

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