About the Book:
Along the banks of the Sweet Oak
River, deep in the heart of the Ozarks, a romance novel book club takes five
women on stunning journeys of self-discovery. After losing first her husband,
then her daughter, seventy-eight-year-old grandmother Ruby wants to teach her
risk-averse granddaughter, Tulsa, that some leaps are worth taking, no matter
how high the potential fall. Tulsa loves her grandmother dearly, but she has a
business to run and no time for romance―not even the paperback version. But
when Ruby ropes her into a book club, Tulsa can’t bring herself to disappoint
the woman who raised her. Together with Ruby’s best friend, Pearl, as well as
family friends BJ and Jen, the women embark on an exploration of modern-day
love guided by written tales of romance. What they discover is a beautiful
story that examines the bonds of friendship and the highs and lows of love in
all its forms.
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About the Author:
Jan Stites has been a
screenwriter, a screenwriting instructor, a waitress, a secretary, a middle
school teacher in both inner-city and affluent schools, a scuba dive travel
writer, a journalist, a transcriptionist for doctors and for documentary
filmmakers, and a volunteer teacher in Kenya and the Yucatan. She considers the
affirmative action plan she wrote for a maritime company to be perhaps her
greatest work of fiction. Edgewise, set in a gritty Oakland setting, is Jan's
debut novel. She's currently hard at play writing her next different book--a
romantic comedy set in the Ozarks. Scheduled for release in the spring of 2014,
Reading the Sweet Oak is a different, much lighter book involving small towns,
good friends, rivers, herons and love in many forms.
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Reading the
Sweet Oak by Jan Stites
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