| Description |
319 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
Set adrift when her mother sells the salon that has been a neighborhood institution for decades, Nora Rolvaag takes a camping trip, intending to do nothing more than roast marshmallows over an open fire and under a starry sky. Two chance encounters, however, will have enormous consequences, and her getaway turns out to be more of a retreat from her daily life than she ever imagined. But Nora is the do-or-die-trying daughter of Patty Jane, who now must embrace the House of Curl's slogan: "Expect the Unexpected." With her trademark wit and warmth, Lorna Landvik follows Nora and an ever-growing cast of characters between city and wooded retreat, Minnesota and Norway, a past that's secret and a future that's promising, but uncertain. Responding to a mysterious letter with a Norwegian postmark, Nora's grandmother Ione travels to her native land to tend to a dying cousin and her husband-two people who played a painful, pivotal role in her past. Nora accompanies her and is surprised by her grandmother's long-ago love story-but even more surprised by the beginning of her own. |
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Families -- Fiction.
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Beauty shops -- Fiction.
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Grandmothers -- Fiction.
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Camping -- Fiction.
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Life change events -- Fiction.
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Grandmothers -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Romance fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781517902698 (hardcover) |
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151790269X (hardcover) |
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9781517902704 (paperback) |
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1517902703 (paperback) |
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