Bowlaway: A Novel
by Elizabeth McCracken
Buy on AmazonNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Recommended Book of 2019 from Entertainment Weekly O, The Oprah Magazine Southern Living BBC Huffington Post Lit Hub Kirkus Bustle Publishers Weekly BookRiot Popsugar Bookish The Boston Globe The Seattle Times A sweeping and enchanting new novel from the widely beloved, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken about three generations of an unconventional New England family who own and operate a candlepin bowling alley From the day she is discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery at the turn of the twentieth century—nothing but a bowling ball, a candlepin, and fifteen pounds of gold on her person—Bertha Truitt is an enigma to everyone in Salford, Massachusetts.…
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"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."
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