Seven Plates at the Table
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Greta thinks she has everything to be thankful for this November. She and her husband George have a good marriage, and she’s looking forward to spending more time with him in a few years, when he retires from his electrical business. Greta’s dedicated her life to her family, and just this once she’s determined to have a Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving. Her only obstacles are her two grown children.
Greta doesn’t know how she produced two such dissimilar personalities. Alan, the oldest, is a financial analyst living in a big house in a pricey Boston suburb, with his remote wife Isabel and their adorable five-year-old, Henry. Greta and George get called for plenty of babysitting, but they almost never see Alan. And Greta’s not sure Henry sees much of his father either. What could her son find more important than his family?
And Emily went from computer sales to goat farming, a switch Greta is trying to understand. But Emily is tending her demanding animals and living a monastic life in a small farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. How is she ever going to meet someone if she can’t leave her goats?
Emily thinks Alan is a self-indulgent bore and Alan thinks Emily is a clueless idealist, opinions that disrupt every family gathering. The only person who seems happy when they’re all together is little Henry. So this Thanksgiving, Greta has spoken to everyone ahead of time about the kind of holiday she expects. But their family get-together doesn’t go the way she wants, and their next year isn’t going to go according to plan either. When Greta starts digging under the surface, she discovers illness, addiction, and depression, but also unexpected talents, new relationships, and pathways to reconciliation. The next Thanksgiving they face is going to be radically different.
Denise Waldron
Remember that painfully shy girl in middle school who hid behind a curtain of long straight hair? Of course you don't! My hair is shorter now and no one who knows me would call me shy. My interest in writing piqued considerably when my eighth-grade English teacher read a student's work aloud and then announced it was mine, and a fellow student looked at me wide-eyed and exclaimed, "YOU wrote that?" It didn't hurt that he was cute and had never noticed me before. I still get a thrill when I see my writing published. After years of writing programming code and technical documentation I quit my job and turned to what I call "early childhood education": raising children. Now the children are older and I've found the time to write for fun, and it is fun or I wouldn't be doing it, because I keep myself busy. I'm on the board of a non-profit, belong to the world's best writing group, play tennis, practice yoga, and travel when I can. I'm interested in cooking, gardening, the environment, and nutrition, and I'm an NPR podcast junkie. There are three signs tacked to my desk: "Stop Me Before I Volunteer Again", "Ginger Rogers Did Everything Fred Astaire Did Only Backwards And In High Heels", and "I'll Try Being Nicer If You Try Being Smarter". I have two completed novels and ideas for four more. Surprisingly, no agents have come to my door asking if I have any books I'd like published, so I'm doing it on my own.
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