title: The Accidental King of Clark Street
author: Dryden, Diane
description: Life, for Leon McKee, was going nowhere. A widower at 50, he began walking the streets of Chicago to take up the lonely hours. Then, answering an ad in the newspaper for a night watchman in a Laundromat, he meets a woman who has accepted her dull life as what she expects to have at her age. But they are both wrong. Their lives and worlds are turned upside down as a series of events change them.and the neighborhood of Clark Street. The Accidental King of Clark Street proves that love can come the second time around. Or is it really the first time, as it blossoms and grows? The most unusual, poignant story of love and transformation you'll ever read!