Valencia and Valentine
(2019)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/KRAUSE,S

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Fiction FICTION/KRAUSE,S Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Seattle, Washington : LAKE UNION Publishing, 2019
©2019
DESCRIPTION

244 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781542092968, 1542092965, 9781542040396, 1542040396
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Valencia, a timid debt collector with crippling OCD, is afraid of many things, but the two that scare her most are flying and turning thirty-five. To confront those fears, Valencia's therapist suggests that she fly somewhere-anywhere-before her upcoming birthday. And as Valencia begins a telephone romance with a man from New York, she suddenly has a destination in mind. There's only one problem-he might not actually exist. Mrs. Valentine is an eccentric old woman desperate for company, be it from neighbors, telemarketers, or even the funeral director (when you're her age, you go to a lot of funerals). So she's thrilled when the new cleaning girl provides a listening ear for her life's story-a tale of storybook love and incredible adventures around the world with her husband before his mysterious and sudden disappearance. The stories of Valencia and Mrs. Valentine may at first appear to have nothing in common ... but then again, nothing in life is as straightforward as it seems