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I Could Always Be A Waitress by B. J Radcliffe is a humor available to read on EtoBox.
What is I Could Always Be A Waitress about?
This is the comic story of Joan Baldwin as a young mother in E.R.A. 1977 life and then as an older woman living in a small Atlantic coast town in Florida, struggling all her life to find her voice and her place in the midst of her overbearing and controlling husband, self-centered daughter, withdrawing son and a baby grandson named Excelsior (dumped into her life by their ever- running-away daughter Susan). Joan, now in 2011 a mental health counselor, tries to keep her granddaughter Emily from attaching herself one of Joan's clients--a sociopathic charmer named Derreck, who belongs to an organization so secret "that the C.I.A. doesn't even know of its existence". Everpresent at the edges is Banana Bay, Florida, a tropical paradise kept in check by asphalt and concrete, just waiting its chance with its alligators and snakes to revert back into jungle. Then there's Annabella, the Marilyn Monroe lookalike; Fr. Wolfe, the Episcopalian ex-football star who "punts for the Lord"; his wife Margaret who bakes a coconut cake which Banana Bay's oldest inhabitant accidentally chokes to death on, the town dentist who yearns to go west and ride a horse; his gossipy wife; and at the center Joan,
Who reads I Could Always Be A Waitress?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- B. J Radcliffe
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781466430761
- Category
- humor
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5 (5 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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