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Sixteen years after The Home For Wayward Clocks ends, Learning To Tell (A Life)Time begins with a police officer at the clock museums door, delivering news of Cooley Danders mothers solitary death. Cooley hasnt seen her mother since James Elgin rescued her as a teenager from that home. Now thirty-two and running the clock museum on her own, shes left to wonder how her mother came to be the woman Cooley remembers: an abusive alcoholic, wielding burning cigarettes as weapons against Cooleys skin. In alternating chapters, short stories reveal the secrets that Cooleys mother, Mara Rose Mayfield, held close for a too-brief lifetime, beginning with the first puff of an offered cigarette when she was ten years old. Cooley must sift through the flicked ashes of her mothers life and come face to face with two pasts her own and her mothers in order to step into a whole future.

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Author

Kathie Giorgio

Publisher

Charlotte, N.C.: Mint Hill Books: Main Street Rag Publishing

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781599484150

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.89 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14