It reads like an anecdotal history of a bowling alley, and the family who starts it, grows with it, and feels trapped by it. Jessie Martin, Nicola's Books, Ann Arbor, MI Winter 2019 Reading Group Indie Next List Elizabeth McCracken once again brings us superb storytelling that shows how our lives don’t always follow a straight line to where we thought we might be going.” Thus begins a story of love, bowling, and how Bertha Truitt would influence the town of Salford and its residents for generations to come. In a bag by her side are a corset, a bowling ball, one candlepin, and 15 pounds of gold. “At the turn of the 20th century, Bertha Truitt is found lying unconscious in a frosty New England cemetery with no explanation of how she arrived there and a past she is unwilling to talk about.
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