Crackpots
By: Sara Pritchard.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Women -- Fiction; Divorced women -- Fiction; Remarried people -- Fiction; Pennsylvania -- Fiction; Outer Banks (N.C.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Ruby Reese is a spunky kid, tap-dancing her way through an off-kilter 1950s childhood. With an insomniac mother and a demolitions-expert father, her family is what her Pennsylvania town would call "a bunch of crackpots." Despite her unorthodox upbringing, this energetic girl matures into a creative, introspective woman. But she blunders through three failed marriages. There"s her first husband, Boo, with whom she lives in a circus tent on the Outer Banks. Her second husband, Oskar the Mumbler, dreams of winning the sweepstakes. Her third husband is a professor with an eye for the ladies. As Ruby struggles to learn from her history, her wonderfully genuine voice shows her to be a remarkably resilient woman.
Notes: "A Mariner original."