Kelly Walker is known around town as the Fix-it Lady who can repair just about anything. That's true, except for the hole in her life left by the death of her lover, Anna. Her fix-it business provides the perfect hideout as she resolves other people's problems instead of focusing on her own shattered life. Grace Owens, single mother, is determined to stand on her own two feet and make a fresh start for herself and her nine-year-old daughter, Lucy. Lucy has a goal of her own: she wants to master her math homework, and that's a hard task with a mother who doesn't understand division. The three meet under a leaky kitchen ceiling. What each has to give, the others need. They must learn when to take risks and when to trust each other. Together, can they find the tools that will allow them to fix what most needs to be rebuilt?
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In a nutshell, Paula is a disabled educated Southern lesbian living in North Carolina with her partner, a bunch of dogs, a few cats, and an one hundred year old house with a leaky roof. Open the nut and Paula loves dogs, tolerates cats, uses buckets in the kitchen, and believes love can happen anywhere (even 8th and Market in Philadelphia June 23rd, 1990). Her writing comes from within, where she runs on the gerbil wheel that is her mind.
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Good Read,
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Offutt, achieves a couple of things in this novel. One, she depicts real characters. No one here is in a beauty pageant, no one here makes an extravagant salary. Two, she manages to write a love story that is not full of steamy scenes on every page, but is still fulfilling (nothing wrong with that, but it is refreshing). I found Grace, Kelly and Lucy extremely likeable characters.
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Paula writes without most of the lesbian drama. For those who know her and there area she is from, you will recognize landmarks. Though this is a first novel (and hopefully there will be more), it is well written and easy to read.
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Terrific novel - Timeless tale of working class women,
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What a find this author is! I adored Kelly from the first chapter. She comes across as someone you love to call sister or friend or lover. Grace, who is raising 9 year old Lucy, is just so strong in carrying the burdens of being a single parent in a new town she can not fail to impress the reader. You care so much for her that you want to step through the page and help. Lucy is a gem - a real pistol. She reminds me a bit of the daughter in the play/story The Goodbye Girl. Not only is this a romance, it starts off as a character study of small town life where you get to care for the whole community before the romance even gets started. Laugh out loud humor throughout. A really great story full of hope. Very sexy and earthy love scenes are really fabulous. Eminently likeable characters. Far from being shallow and simplistic these women are vibrant, intelligent, and real. I found nothing about them to be caricature or stereotypical. Each character was a unique person to me and never once did I have to back track to remember who was who. I did enjoy the brief descriptions of Kelly's profession. It is like a little glimpse of the home improvement shows where you know you will never build your own deck but love watching someone else go to it. I cannot wait for the author's next novel - I hope it has the wonderful humor, emotion and passion as this book.
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