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With her twentieth high-school reunion approaching, Maggie Sweet is fed up with her life in a small North Carolina town and prepares to jump ship for an old high-school sweetheart. Winner of the Carolina Novel Award. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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Maggie Sweet has had it! For nineteen years, she's kept house, raised a pair of battling twin daughters, put up with her frugal husband, Steven, humored his impossible mother, and kept her mouth shut. But when Steven spends their life savings on a cemetery plot, it's time for Maggie to take control.With her twenty-year high school reunion just around the corner and her long-lost high school boyfriend back in town, it's Maggie's turn to start turning heads. In the face of small-minded gossips, a surly family, and a meddling grandmother, Maggie must reach deep inside her Southern-housewife soul to become the woman she's always wanted to be.
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