Tales Of The Wide-a-wake Cafe
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: September 27, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781418450946
Subjects: Historical fiction; Historical - General; Fiction; Fiction - Historical
First sentence: Powdery dust rose in tiny cloud-like puffs behind her bare feet as Janice Lookabaugh ran across the grassless yard of the farmhouse towards her home.  The dust was then carried immediately away by the hot wind that blew from the south all that summer.  In a matter of moments, it began carrying away the evidence of her passing as her footprints were smoothed and the yard resumed its dry, barren appearance.
Description: By the author:

“Tales of the Wide A Wake Café” follows the waitresses in a tiny Oklahoma eatery as they struggle through the end of the depression and the years of World War II that took away almost everything they knew but also offered them opportunities beyond their wildest dreams.  “Tales” recounts their romances, heartaches, losses, loves, and victories in stories that will stay with you forever.  There’s ambitious Janice Lookabaugh, determined to be the first member of her family to graduate from college, but haunted by a first love severed by the vast expanse of the Pacific.  Add Charlie Morgan, the young pilot who wants to earn Janice's love, but must wrestle his own demons first.  Then there’s Clara, convinced that any romance, and any man offers a better life than the one she has.  Next is Tina - relentlessly determined to find a father for her baby, even if he’s the wrong one.  Every story crackles with realism and poignance.  Like every great book, you will both laugh and cry as you invest your own emotions into the characters as they live the years that changed America and American women forever.