While my friends made their career plans, declaring they would become doctors, nurses, and lawyers, inwardly I knew that I wanted to be involved somehow in comedy. I thought that people who could make other people laugh were terribly fortunate. I've always believed in comic entrances.Īs I grew up in River Forest, Illinois, in the 1950's, I seem to remember an early fascination with things that were funny. (Oct.JI was born at eleven A.M., a most reasonable time, my mother often said, and when the nurse put me in my mother's arms for the first time I had both a nasty case of the hiccups and no discernible forehead (it's since grown in). They're likely to gobble this up like so much comfort food. The author resolves a few of her plot points a bit too tidily, but her fans won't mind. sat in the middle of the place like the center ring in a circus""), brings Hope's surroundings and her emotions to life. Her vivid prose, often rich in metaphor (e.g., Hope's description of the Brooklyn diner: ""The big, oval counter. Readers will recognize many of Bauer's hallmarks here-a strong female protagonist on the road to self-discovery, quirky characters, dysfunctional families, a swiftly moving story, moments of bright humor. Along the way, Addie and Hope both find love, and Hope discovers the father figure she has so desperately wanted. Stoop, who is battling leukemia, run for mayor. She and Addie shine in the small-town milieu and gladly offer to help diner owner G.T. When Addie accepts a new job that takes the pair from Brooklyn to the Welcome Stairways diner in Mulhoney, Wis., Hope never could have imagined the big changes ahead of her.
But Hope would gladly give up always having to say good-bye to friends and places she loves.
She doesn't mind the hard work it takes to make a diner hum she seems to have inherited a knack for waiting tables from the free-spirit mom (Addie's younger sister) who abandoned her years ago. Sixteen-year-old Hope has grown used to the nomadic life she has built with her aunt Addie, a talented diner cook.
Bauer (Rules of the Road Squashed) serves up agreeable fare in this tale of a teenage waitress's search for a sense of belonging.
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