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By Dayna Dunbar. “Dunbar continues the saga of her gritty and effervescent heroine, Aletta Honor, first introduced in The Saints and Sinners of Okay County (2003). Aletta, a psychic reader in Okay, Oklahoma, is divorced and raising four kids, ages 3 to 15, on her own because her ex-husband, Jimmy, an alcoholic and a ladies' man, is no help at all. Suddenly and inexplicably, Aletta loses her ability to see into the future, and she thinks a mysterious Native American stranger may somehow be responsible. She enlists three friends to join her on an odyssey to New Mexico, an Oz-like journey to retrieve her mystical vision. Dunbar's marvelously quirky characters are only too happy to oblige, each eager to escape Okay's humdrum routine and various love-life disasters. A side plot involving Aletta's long-lost cousin--an ecoterrorist eluding the FBI--enlivens an already bursting saga with one more facet of mayhem. In her now-familiar Oklahoma twang, Dunbar expertly juggles multiple plots touching on alcoholism, women's rights, and Native American beliefs.” -- Booklist
Softcover; 320 pages.
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