Deep Down True: A Novel
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ISBN: 014311851X / Publisher: Penguin Books, January 2011
After her husband leaves and her Goth niece arrives, Dana Stellgarten struggles to help her kids cope as she re-enters the dating scene and befriends a popular woman in town, all while trying to stay true to herself.
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From the author of Shelter Me--a funny and poignant novel about having your heart in the right place. Newly divorced Dana Stellgarten has always been unfailingly nice- even to telemarketers-but now her temper is wearing thin. Money is tight, her kids are reeling from their dad's departure, and her Goth teenage niece has just landed on her doorstep. As she enters the slipstream of post-divorce romance and is befriended by the town queen bee, Dana finds that the tension between being true to yourself and being liked doesn't end in middle school... and that sometimes it takes a real friend to help you embrace adulthood in all its flawed complexity.
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