a town faces its hypocrisies
makes a rash decision to fraudulently accept an invitation for a reading tour in India in a desperate attempt to remake her life
and Strategies offers psychologists
it sparkles through her classmates
a young doctor investigating the suicide of an elderly woman discovers that she was obsessed with his vanished son
In Reach Tots_Gift_Guide a town faces its hypocrisiesIn writing both rich and evocative, Pamela Carter Joern conjures the small plains town of Reach, Nebraska, where residents are stuck tight in the tension between loneliness and the risks of relationships. With insight, wry humor, and deep compassion, Joern renders a cast of recurring characters engaged in battles public and private, epic and mundane: a husband and wife find themselves the center of a local scandal; a widow yearns for companionship,