Bowlaway: A Novel

"I suspect there’s never been (or ever will be again) another work of fiction whose main character is arguably a family-owned candlepin bowling alley. From the moment Bertha Truitt, matriarch-to-be, is discovered unconscious in a cemetery, events follow their own idiosyncratic (and sometimes outlandish) course, but Elizabeth McCracken, a writer’s writer, brings this charming and quirky novel to a most satisfying conclusion."