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    Thank You Enough: Becker Family
    Thank You Enough: Becker Family
    Thank You Enough: Becker Family
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    Thank You Enough: Becker Family

    By Robert Gadkey

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    Most people appreciate a helping hand. Few of us can do everything alone these days.

    But what if the help is thrust upon you? And you didn't ask for it? And it makes your life worse?

    Do you still have to be thankful?

    This was the problem facing Kate Becker, a down-on-her-luck, thirty-four-year-old lawyer who lived with her mother.

    When her car broke down, and she couldn't afford the repair, her mother's kooky friend offered to help fix it for free. But the kooky friend was a melodramatic mess who never missed a chance to insult Kate. The thought of owing her made Kate's stomach queasy.

    But no one turns down free, right?

    Or maybe you do.

    This a light-hearted, fun story with quirky and eccentric characters.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRAWC Publishing
    Release dateAug 26, 2022
    ISBN9781957044019
    Thank You Enough: Becker Family
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    Robert Gadkey

    Robert Gadkey graduated from Drake University and received a law degree from The University of Iowa College of Law. Prior to writing fiction, he spent more than a decade working as a divorce lawyer. In 2018, he was a runner-up in Gotham Writers Workshop Goodnight New York contest. In 2019, his first short story, The White Room, appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, a publication of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He and his wife Angela have two children and reside in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

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