Sunnyside Blues [Paperback]

Mary Carter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2009

Twenty-five-year-old Andes Lane has spent nine years moving restlessly from place to place as she searches for somewhere that feels right. In the little blue houseboat bobbing on a Seattle lake, she thinks she's found it. But Andes has barely had a chance to settle in before her new life is upended by her landlord, Jay, and his ten-year-old son, Chase. Smart, secretive, and precocious, Chase touches a chord with Andes even as he plays on her last nerve. When Jay needs someone to take care of Chase temporarily, Andes agrees to accompany the boy to Sunnyside, Queens, on a quest she's sure will prove fruitless. But in this new, strange, unexpectedly welcoming city, Andes will confront the secrets she tried to leave behind and the lies that have kept her running. And against all odds, she'll discover a place, a man, and a newfound peace of mind that feel very much like home.

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About the Author

Mary Randolph Carter, author of American Junk, Garden Junk, and American Family Style (all Viking Studio), is the Vice President of Advertising at Polo/Ralph Lauren. Carter lives in New York City and Dutchess County, New York.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Kensington; 1 Original edition (July 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0758229194
• ISBN-13: 978-0758229199
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,909,863 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

MARY CARTER is a freelance writer and novelist. MY SISTER'S VOICE is her fourth novel with Kensington. Her other works include: SHE'LL TAKE IT, ACCIDENTALLY ENGAGED, SUNNYSIDE BLUES, and THE HONEYMOON HOUSE in the best selling anthology ALMOST HOME. She is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, which is part of the Rochester Institute of Technology. She has just completed A Very Maui Christmas, a new novella for Kensington that will be included in a Christmas of 2010 anthology. She is currently working on a new novel, The Pub Across the Pond, about an American woman who swears off all Irish men only to learn she's won a pub in Ireland. Readers are welcome to visit her at marycarterbooks.com.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars terrific coming of age tale, July 1, 2009

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sunnyside Blues (Paperback)

For almost a decade Andes Lane has moved from one location to another like a rolling stone gathering no moss. Now twenty-five years old she decides she would like to stay put at least for now. She rents a house barge "Luna" from Jay in Seattle

When her landlord Jay needs someone to baby sit his ten years old son Chase, she reluctantly volunteers since it is only temporarily. Andes accompanies the child to Sunnyside in Queens, New York on what she expects to be a waste of time. However as she watches over the tweener, her own past arises forcing her to confront what sent her on the road nine plus years ago.

This is a terrific coming of age tale; with the spin that the adult Andes (due to her positive relationship with Chase after a very poor start) is the one changing the most. The cast is strong as each of the trio and another couple in West Virginia confronts their past. With some back story of what happened years ago, Mary Carter provides a refreshing unique road tale where the final destination is Sunnyside hopefully discarding the blues.

Harriet Klausner

4.0 out of 5 stars Great work, November 4, 2011

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This review is from: Sunnyside Blues (Paperback)

This is the third of Cater's books that I've read and she doesn't dissappoint. she is funny and serious all at once.

3.0 out of 5 stars Unexpected, September 28, 2010

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Jan-Jan (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sunnyside Blues (Paperback)

I bought this book under the imprint of Little Black Dress, because I found two of Mary Carter's other romantic novels in the LBD line extremely entertaining and witty. This was a departure from that mould - the main relationship in focus being between a troubled young woman who had been brought up in, and run away from, a religious cult, and a troubled boy.

I'm surprised this book was in the Little Black Dress line, as they are usually romances. This has romance but if you're looking for the hero and heroine on the page for most of the book, you'll be disappointed.