Tassy Morgan's Bluff
A Novel
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
A wonderfully funny and warm introduction to the quirky inhabitants of a small town located on the breathtakingly scenic northern tip of California.
San Andreas, California. It may be a quaint town, but its residents have high hopes for its future as a tourist destination. There's Bill the Fixer, the handyman who sidelines in chain-saw sculpted redwood totem poles; real estate agent Margaret Nam, who plans to make a mint rehabbing beach shacks; and Jimi, the well-to-do hairstylist whose chair is the epicenter of town gossip. Amid their town's growing pains, widower Lincoln Ellis and Tassy Morgan, a recently divorced painter, meet and-much to their surprise-sparks begin to fly.
Beautifully written and infused with sly humor, Tassy Morgan's Bluff will welcome readers of all ages to a place they'll want to visit again and again.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Filmmaker Stinson's debut shows divorced artist Anastasia "Tassy" Morgan through the eyes of the men in her life, and by default her own sense of self is lost. Her neighbor Lincoln Ellis, a widower and recent transplant to San Andreas, Calif., is entranced by this "big, vital woman" who goes mano a mano with the town council when they deny her petition to rebuild her decrepit cottage and shore up the sinking bluff it sits upon. Tassy's brazen antics draw the attention of several men, but Linc's endearing support melts her hardened heart and the two begin an affair with some fumbling sex scenes that display Stinson's awkwardness with words as much as the lovers' uncertainty with each other. A thin secondary plot around wheeling and dealing Native Americans does little to support this tale, which like its namesake seems in imminent danger of crumbling away.
