Ruby's Slippers
Injured by a tornado that hit her Kansas home, 35-year-old Dottie Meyers wakes up three months later in a California health facility, where her long-absent father has left her a pair of ruby slippers. Dottie, along with three friends, sets off to find her father to resolve her feelings about him and what happened to their family so long ago. Addressing the fragility of broken childhoods and lost dreams, Ellis's latest (afterElvis Takes a Back Seat) will appeal to devotees of women's fiction.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.