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Call Number: Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Map on lining papers.
Cliff, a sixty-something protagonist, divorced and robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife, takes a road trip across America, armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission to rename all the states and state birds to overcome the banal names men have given them. Cliff's adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high school-teacher days twenty-some years before, to a "snake farm" in Arizona owned by an old classmate; and to the high-octane existence of his son, a big-time movie producer in San Francisco.

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Wanted to like it submitted by teri on August 8, 2019, 5:48pm This novel looked good for many reasons - an author who grew up in Michigan, subject matter included a road trip, renaming states and birds, farming, cherry picking, etc.
However; the affairs, drinking, small-talk, etc. just didn't speak to me.