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By: Dian Greenwood
ISBN: 978-1647424404
She Writes Press, 2023
Inside Diego’s Diner on Highway 99, Lorraine, the eldest of three sisters, attempts to convert the truckers and regional farmers to her religious beliefs while managing the counters and booths. Becky, the youngest, lurches into this scene after a night’s drunken romp. Meanwhile, middle sister Julie is en route on a bus from Las Vegas, where she’s just ended a long career as a Riviera showgirl, when the sisters are called into an obligatory reunion as a prelude to their mother’s impending death. Overshadowing the longstanding tensions between the three women is the unexplained disappearance of their long-absent father from their lives.
About the Author
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Though Dian Greenwood started her life in the Dakotas, she has been a West Coaster since adolescence. She studied both writing and counseling psychology in San Francisco. An early focus on poetry led her to fiction. She has published personal essays in The Big Smoke, a weekly online magazine. About the Carleton Sisters is her debut novel. She writes and works as a family therapist in Portland, Oregon.
To learn more about Dian Greenwood and her work, please see diangreenwood.com