When Ronda Wickford hires a middle-age man with a PhD in philosophy to run the market’s fresh produce department, weird things happen. She learns a thing or two about Wittgenstein’s linguistic theories, common decency and how to fix a leaky faucet.
On his deathbed, Mary McCarthy’s father sputtered, “You should have married the Jew.” Never once in his seventy-plus years had the freckle-faced Irishman apologized to anyone, admitted a mistake or human frailty.
Foul-mouthed Marna Copparelli, who waitresses at Guido's Pizza, wouldn't know a semicolon from a large intestine. Luther Buttafuoco writes books that get reviewed in the New York Times. He wants a date with Marna Copparelli. Good luck, Luther!
Terrence is an educated black man who believes in the great American melting pot, a society where diverse people blend together. Unfortunately, his girl friend doesn’t share similar ideals.
Teddy Curtis just memorized Edgar Allen Poe’s poem, The Raven, all eighteen stanzas in one sitting, but he’s just a fun-loving, goofy third grader getting ready for a birthday party.
Parker Salisbury is dating a young woman with the social graces of a cigar store Indian. So why is he giving Lilly an engagement ring later this evening?
In his late sixties Uncle Ralph, the confirmed bachelor and raunchy womanizer, is marrying a neighbor he met at the retirement community only a month earlier. Has he found his twin soul or lost his geriatric mind?
During her lavish lunch overlooking Plymouth Harbor Dorothea Winthrop got an oil stain on her Anne Fontain, Paris original, three-hundred-dollar blouse. But that’s just the beginning of her predicament.
Well-intentioned friends worry that Ned Barstow intends to blow his brains out with a high-powered rifle, but the elderly widower just wants to go back to nature.
Hattie Mae Jackson, the black cleaning lady at the community mental health clinic is going to give the psychologist, Dr. Morton, unsolicited advice about managing one of his more troublesome mental patients.
Seventy-three year-old Grandma Heidegger recently killed a man in the alleyway behind Duggan’s Pharmacy. The feisty woman, who concealed the 38 caliber Ruger in a ‘flash, bang’ bra holster, harbors no regrets, no remorse.
Lucas Weston just stole a beagle puppy and feels perfectly comfortable giving it as an early Christmas gift to his granddaughter.
Kimberly Weston is a financial planner with a six-figure income, while Kurt Salinger is a college dropout who waits tables for chump change and tips. Kimberly and Kurt are twin souls.
Alice Brown, who lived in rural New Hampshire in the late eighteen hundreds, was a world-class, American writer.
Leslie Holbrook just insulted Yvonne Blackstone and trash talked her husband. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Leslie is also eating both her meal and that of her friend who just fled the ritzy, gourmet restaurant.
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