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"Mattie Ryder is marvelously neurotic, well-intentioned, funny, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke. And her life at the moment is a wreck: her marriage has failed, her mother is failing, her house is rotting, her waist is expanding (and she's a perfect size 12 model at Sears), she has a crush on a married man, and her two young children are behaving the way young children in the midst of a divorce behave. Then she comes upon a small rubber blue shoe - the kind you might get from a gum ball machine - and a few other trifles that were left years ago in her deceased father's car.…
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4 editions- Audiobook · English · 2002Blue Shoe (Nova Audio Books)Nova Audio Books · 9781590863534
- Other · English · 2003Wheeler Pub. · 413 pages · 9781587243622
- Other · English · 2003Riverhead Books · 319 pages · 9781573223423
- Other · English · 2002Riverhead Books · 291 pages · 9781573222266
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