Why Stuff Matters: A Novel by Jen Waldo (English) Hardcover Book

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Anne Tyler meets Raymond Carver . . . a witty domestic novel set in small-town Texas.

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When Jessica, a grieving widow, inherits an antique mall from her mother she also inherits the stallholders, an elderly, amoral, acquisitive, and paranoid collection. When one of the vendors, a wily ex-con named Roxy, shoots her ex-husband, she calls on Jessica to help bury the body and soon Jessica is embroiled in cover-ups, lies, and misdirection. Into this mix comes Lizzie, Jessica's late husband's twelve-year-old daughter by his first marriage, who's been dumped on Jessica's doorstep by the child's self-absorbed mother and it soon becomes apparent that Lizzie is as obsessed with material possessions as Jessica's elderly tenants. Why Stuff Matters is a compelling ode to possession, why people like things and the curious lengths they will go to keep them. Returning to her fictional Caprock, Waldo turns her wry wit on the lives of those afraid to let go.

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A witty domestic novel set in small-town Texas, it is a compelling tribute to possession and explores the curious lengths people will go to to keep the things they like.

Author Biography

Jen Waldo has lived in Holland, Egypt, the UK, Kuwait and Singapore, but now lives in her home Texas, where the majority of her novels are set. She first began writing twenty-five years ago and shortly afterwards she had a story picked up by The European and was shortlisted in a competition by Traveler.

Details ISBN1911350226 Author Jen Waldo Year 2017 ISBN-10 1911350226 ISBN-13 9781911350224 Format Hardcover Media Book Publication Date 2017-10-19 Short Title Why Stuff Matters Language English Subtitle A Novel DEWEY 813.6 Pages 254 UK Release Date 2017-10-19 Imprint Arcadia Books Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Publisher Quercus Publishing Audience General NZ Release Date 2017-10-18 AU Release Date 2017-10-18 We've got this

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