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The Lost Queen of Crocker County
The Lost Queen of Crocker County: A Novel | Elizabeth Leiknes
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For fans of books like THE READERS OF BROKEN WHEEL RECOMMEND, a feel-good story of going home again to get things right. 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. 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.
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Themes: Family, Second Chances, Small town Iowa
I went into this not knowing what to really expect, but I love novels based in Iowa and the premise sounded good. Reading this gave me Matt Haig and J. Ryan Stradal vibes, and the witty dialogue made it a very quick read (I started it Friday afternoon and finished it late Saturday afternoon lol). Do not skip the “A Conversation with the Author” section, as a midwesterner it was a delight to read 😊🌽

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Lost Queen of Crocker County | Elizabeth Leiknes
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Spending my afternoon hanging out with my daughter's dogs and reading ARC that is giving me all the feels (tears, indignation, disbelief, & hope)