Tyler Goodson, Avid Bookshop, Athens, GAĪ sweeping and enchanting new novel from the widely beloved, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken about three generations of an unconventional New England family who own and operate a candlepin bowling alley From the day she is discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery at the turn of the twentieth century-nothing but a bowling ball, a candlepin, and fifteen pounds of gold on her person-Bertha Truitt is an enigma to everyone in Salford, Massachusetts. But the best part is McCracken’s writing-every few pages a line or a passage will sneak up on you and knock your socks off.” It’s about the farthest branches of a family tree and the stories we tell about them. It reads like an anecdotal history of a bowling alley, and the family who starts it, grows with it, and feels trapped by it. Jessie Martin, Nicola's Books, Ann Arbor, MI Winter 2019 Reading Group Indie Next List Elizabeth McCracken once again brings us superb storytelling that shows how our lives don’t always follow a straight line to where we thought we might be going.” Thus begins a story of love, bowling, and how Bertha Truitt would influence the town of Salford and its residents for generations to come. In a bag by her side are a corset, a bowling ball, one candlepin, and 15 pounds of gold. “At the turn of the 20th century, Bertha Truitt is found lying unconscious in a frosty New England cemetery with no explanation of how she arrived there and a past she is unwilling to talk about.
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