Mattie and Frank

by Katherine Anne Dieter

A natural disaster, time, and chance conspire to lead a group of small-town Midwesterners into unimagined possibilities in this poignant and funny novel of growing, moving, and longing for home.

When twelve-year-old Meg volunteers to play music at a nursing home, it's clear that the staff and residents, especially the ornery and flirtatious Mattie and Frank, are far more interesting than the organ she can barely play. Immersed in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0998097667
• ISBN13: 9780998097664
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Polished Stone Publishing
• Length: 172 Pages

Customer Reviews

Delightful and touching charaacters

This book moved me to tears at times. Sweet and tightly written, it tracks two relationships: a young girl in Minnesota and her affair with a dark-skinned musician, and an old couple -- both great characters -- Mattie and Frank, who start out in an old people's home and end up living with the young couple. The writing is excellent, the characters well-drawn. I'd love to see this book as a movie or even a TV series. (Older acttresses who complain they don't have any good roles -?check out Mattie!) I give it 5 stars.