Mamma's Boarding House

by John D. Fitzgerald · 1958

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A humorous novel full of eccentric characters and their adventures in a Utah boarding house, Fitzgerald's sequel to his enormously popular, Papa Married A Mormon. A scarce Fitzgerald title.

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adult
Length
medium · 305 pages

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