Famous in a Small Town
By Viola Shipman aka Wade RouseĀ
Wade rouse is the internationally bestselling author of nine books, which have been translated into nearly 20 languages. Wade chose his grandmotherās name, Viola Shipman, as a pen name to honor the woman whose heirlooms and family stories inspire his fiction. See the Product Description below for details about this book. Please buy all of your books directly from the author or an independent Michigan bookstore.
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Product Description
For most of her eighty years, Mary Jackson has endured the steady invasion of tourists, influencers and real estate developers who have discovered the lakeside charm of Good Hart, Michigan, waiting patiently for the arrival of a stranger sheās believed since childhood would not only one day carry on her legacyāthe Very Cherry General Store ābut also break the record she set as a teen to become the first woman to win Michiganās Cherry Pit Spitting Championship, a record that still stands today. Like generations of Jackson women before her, Cherry Mary, as sheās known locally, runs the community hubāpart post office, bakery and sandwich shopāand had almost given up hope that the mysterious prediction sheād been told as a girl would come true and the store would have to pass toā¦a man.
Becky Thatcher came to Good Hart with her ride-or-die BFF to forget that sheās just turned forty with nothing to show for it. Ending up at the general store with Mary is admittedly not the beach vacation she expected, but the more the feisty octogenarian talks about destiny, the stronger Beckyās memories of her own childhood holidays become, and the strange visions over the lake she was never sure were real. As she works under Maryās wing for the summer and finds she fits into this quirky community of locals, she starts to believe that destiny could be real, and that it might have something very special in mind for Becky.