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Skipped Parts

Book 1 of the GroVont Triology series

In 1963, 13-year-old Sam Callahan and his tart-tongued, divorced, misbehavingmother, Lydia, must cope as best they can after they are banished to the hicktown of GroVont, Wyoming, by Lydia's Southern gentleman father.

Genre
humorcoming of ageromanceliterary fictionmystery
Setting
1990swyoming
Audience
young adultadult
Length
long · 400 pages

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