
"Perry couldn't help wondering how different his life would have been had this woman actually been his grandmother." In Derby, South Carolina, an unlikely friendship is forged between two people who are poles apart in every way. In this novel, the Deep South meets the Midwest,...



Sociologist Perry Warren is searching for answers for the broken relationships in his own life and discovers a wealth of research - and a reason to hope - in the strange neighbors next door. Eldeen Rafferty embraces life in all its gritty, glorious detail, determined to leave...

A Southerner trying to make a new beginning for himself gets a fresh perspective on life from the eccentric woman living next-door.