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Title: Walking
across Egypt
Author: Clyde Edgerton
Genre: fiction/humor
Rating: 
Mattie Rigsbee, a 78 year old independent and strong-willed religious senior
that loves cooking and watching "All my children", keeps telling
herself she is slowing down a bit. By doing that she is trying to convince
herself of something that isn't quite true and keeping herself from wanting the
things she is still able doing or having.
When one day a stray dog sits on her doorstep and she decides to call the
dogcatcher she doesn't realize her whole life will be different from then on.
The dogcatcher becomes a part of her life, but he brings another person in the
picture as well; his nephew, a 16 year old boy, who stays in the YMRC for
stealing a car. He has no place to go, because no one wants to or can't be his guardian.
When he escapes and walks right into Mattie's world, she has to make some decisions
about her and his life.
The book is a very fun and uplifting story and the way it is brought by Edgerton
is even better.
The fun becomes different a little bit as the story progressed. At first the
book gets his humor out hilarious situations, after a while the humor gets more
subtle. But a 78 year old woman talking about tired sperm to her daughter's
boyfriend, which she never met, is pretty funny to me either way.
Read this one, you will love Mattie and the life Edgerton has created for her.
If
you liked this book, you should try:
Floatplane
notebooks, the
Killer
Diller
Nobody's fool
Where trouble sleeps
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