num_pages: 560
description: Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic Hamm Sparks and the two women who love him as differently as night and day. Then there is Tot Whooten; Beatrice Woods, the Little Blind Songbird; Cecil Figgs, the Funeral King; and the fabulous Minnie Oatman. The time is 1946 until the present. The town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future.
language: English
title: Standing in the Rainbow
titlecomplete: Standing in the Rainbow (Elmwood Springs, #2)
genres: Audiobook, Chick Lit, Historical Fiction, Southern, Novels, Adult Fiction, Family, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 17570
places: Missouri
series: Elmwood Springs
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Audie Award
category: Narration by the Author or Authors
publisher: Ballantine Books