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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / General / Davis, Brooke
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch, Westgate Branch

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Follows a shared encounter between an abandoned 7-year-old, a widowed shut-in and a nursing home escapee, who embark on a road trip across Western Australia to find the child's mother.
Millie Bird's struggling mother, grieving the death of Millie's father, leaves her in a local store and never returns. Agatha Pantha, has not left her house, or spoken to another human being, since she was widowed seven years ago. Karl once used his fingers to type out love notes on his wife's skin; now widowed, he types his words out into the air as he speaks. Brought together at a fateful moment, the three embark upon a road trip across Western Australia to find Millie's mother.

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Quirky Australian Road Trip with Elderly submitted by sdunav on July 27, 2015, 10:22am I really can't decide whether I liked this novel a lot or was annoyed by it's characterizations of children and old people. Sometimes the characters' voices seem spot on, and then five pages later I'm rolling my eyes, thinking that it's too much, gone into pretentiousness now.

The Australian setting is different, though the towns and people bringing casseroles after the death of a neighbor are certainly familiar.

If you like Matthew Quick's novels, you might find this entertaining if not profound.