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The Lost Queen of Crocker County - by Elizabeth Leiknes (Paperback)

The Lost Queen of Crocker County - by  Elizabeth Leiknes (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Crocker County crowns a new Corn Queen every year, but Jane Willow's the one you would remember. She can't forget Iowa, either. Even though she fled to LA to become a film critic years ago, home was always there behind her. But when a family tragedy happens, she's forced to drive back to Crocker County. The rolling farmlands can't much hide the things she left behind: the best friend she abandoned who now runs a meatloaf hotline, the childhood front porch that sits hauntingly empty, and that fiasco of a Corn Fest that spun her life in a different direction"--Back cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>For fans of books like THE READERS OF BROKEN WHEEL RECOMMEND, a feel-good story of going home again to get things right.</strong></p><p>Crocker County crowns a new Corn Queen every year, but Jane Willow's the one you would remember. She can't forget Iowa, either. Even though she fled to LA to become a film critic years ago, home was always there behind her.</p><p>But when a family tragedy happens, she's forced to drive back to Crocker County. The rolling farmlands can't much hide the things she left behind: the best friend she abandoned who now runs a meatloaf hotline, the childhood front porch that sits hauntingly empty, and that fiasco of a Corn Fest that spun her life in a different direction.</p><p>Before Jane can escape her past a second time, disaster strikes, and she will have to find a way to right her mistakes and save herself from her regrets. An unflinchingly love letter to the Midwest that unfolds through a celebration of movies, this ferociously endearing novel brings home the saving grace of second chances.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Leiknes' latest (after 2017's Black-Eyed Susan) takes the reader on an emotional roller-coaster ride, near tears at one moment and laughing out loud the next. Jane is a wisecracking character who grows emotionally over the course of the novel. A fairly open ending leaves room for a possible sequel. Recommended for fans of Jojo Moyes and Carol Rifka Brunt" - <strong><em> Booklist</em></strong><br><br>"An unexpected modern fairy tale that will leave your head spinning." - <strong><em> Kaela Coble, author of Friends and Other Liars</em></strong><br><br>"Elizabeth Leiknes writes her heroine with a wistful authority. The <i>Lost Queen of Crocker County</i> is a tale of the tenacity it takes to search one's soul and find forgiveness there - and of the kind of grace that can only be found in your hometown." - <strong><em> Caroline Angell, author of All the Time in the World</em></strong><br><br>"This heartwarming redemptive novel proves that you can indeed "go home again." ... What a charmer this book is! Highly recommended for female reading groups." - <strong><em> Nancy Simpson-Brice, Book Vault (Oskaloosa, IA)</em></strong><br>

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