Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.

This week's teaser comes from Crossing The Tracks by Barbara Stuber.

""Meet Henry, my assistant." She wags her fancy cane. "He's bamboo. Quite elegant, although a bit too tall for me. Of Japanese descent, so conversation a trifle difficult."" --page 23 in the ARC, very subject to change.

Summary:

At fifteen, Iris is a hobo of sorts -- no home, no family, no direction. After her mother’s early death, Iris’s father focuses on big plans for his new shoe stores and his latest girlfriend, and has no time for his daughter. Unbeknownst to her, he hires Iris out as housekeeper and companion for a country doctor’s elderly mother. Suddenly Iris is alone, stuck in gritty rural Missouri, too far from her only friend Leroy and too close to a tenant farmer, Cecil Deets, who menaces the neighbors and, Iris suspects, his own daughter.

Iris is buoyed by the warmth and understanding the doctor and his mother show her, but just as she starts to break out of her shell, tragedy strikes. Iris must find the guts and cunning to take aim at the devil incarnate and discover if she is really as helpless—or as hopeless—as she once believed.


Lyrical, yet humorous, Barbara Stuber’s debut novel is the unforgettable story of a girl who struggles to cast aside her long-standing grief and doubt and, in the span of one dusty summer, learn to trust, hope, and—ultimately—love.

7 comments:

  1. Charming and intriguing teaser. My TT: http://www.rundpinne.com/2010/07/teaser-tuesdays-31-bond-street.html

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  2. I love that teaser, one of the best I've read today! Mine is at The Crowded Leaf.

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  3. Is he literally bamboo?

    You can find my teaserhere.

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  4. That makes me want to read more!
    See my teaser, here.

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  5. Sorry, I'm a little late visiting this...

    Interesting teaser! I noticed this book just came out, but I don't have a clue what it's about.

    Here is our teaser for this week.

    ♥Isalys

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