![]() ![]() ![]() Perfect) in tow, Margie sets out on her quest with determinaton and charm. ![]() Speeding along the backroads of Flood County, past towns called Grassy Creek, Pine Ridge, Decoy and Hazel Green, with her little sister Peep (aka Ms. Margie's small hometown of Ithaca, Kentucky (ems to me there was a guy named Odysseus who had his own little hometown of the same name.and didn't he set out on a journey, too?.) is populated with businesses like Jip's Drugs, the Whatnot Shop, Tasty Yum, the Good Grace Church of Redemption, and the World of Tires, where Margie's daddy, a man who "has a talent for tires," plies his trade. If that sounds a little like the beginning of a Eudora Welty short story, you're right - The Map of Me has a slight Southern drawl drifting through it. I'm so pleased to welcome Tami Lewis Brown to the Drift Record today! Tami's latest book is The Map of Me,a breath-of-fresh-air middle grade novel in which the heroine, Margie, heads out in her father's Faithful Ford (no, she can't drive, but that doesn't stop her!) on a quest to find her errant chicken-decor-obsessed mother. ![]()
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