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<p>cora Sledge Is Horrified When Her Children, Who Doubt Her Ability To Take Care Of Herself, Plot To Remove Her From Her Home. So What If Her House Is A Shambles? Who Cares When She Last Changed Her Clothes? If An Eighty-two-year-old Widow Wants To Live On Junk Food, Pills, And Cigarettes, Hasn’t She Earned The Right? When Her Kids Force Her Into The Palisades, An Assisted Living Facility, Cora Takes To Her Bed, Planning To Die As Soon As Possible. But Life Isn’t Finished With Her Yet, Not By A Long Shot.<p>deciding That Truth Is The Best Revenge, Cora Begins To Write A Tell-all Journal That Reveals Once And For All The Secret She Has Guarded Since She Was A Young Woman. In Entries That Are Profane, Profound, And Gossipy, She Chronicles Her Childhood In Rural Missouri, Her Shotgun Wedding, And The Terrible Event That Changed The Course Of Her Life. Intermingled With Her Reminiscences Is An Account Of The Day-to-day Dramas At The Palisades—her Budding Romance With A Suave New Resident, Feuds With Her Tablemates, Her Rollicking Camaraderie With The Man Who Oversees Her Health Care, And The Sinister Cloud Of Suspicion That Descends As A Series Of Petty Crimes Sets E
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Leslie Larson
- Publisher
- Crown/Archetype;Broadway Paperbacks
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307460783
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (820 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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