Pontoon (2007) (edit title/settings)

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• Evelyn Peterson: Mysterious matriarch of the Peterson family. Insomniac and undercover lover.
• Barbara: Evelyn's daughter, mother of Kyle and Muffy.
• Raoul: Evelyn's boyfriend
• Debbie Detmer: Former resident of Lake Wobegon who now lives a New Age lifestyle in California. Returns home to Minnesota with her betrothed.
• Pastor Ingqvist: Lake Wobegon's Lutheran pastor.
• Kyle: Barbara's son. Liberal arts major in college.
• Roger: Add a description of this character.
• Jack
• Bennett
• Florence: As known as Flo, Evelyn's sister.
• Muffy: Barbara's daughter.
• Oliver: Barbara's rotund boyfriend.
• Gladys
• Mr. Hoppe
• Sarah
• Larry
• Duane
• Margaret
• Dorothy
• Craig
• Luanne
• Andy Williams
• Gwen
• Lois
• Donnie
• Gary
• Wally
• Ringsak: Bishop of the Lutheran synod in Minneapolis.
• Clint

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• “Mother gave Barbara a book once, Everything a Girl Should Know, that basically said, "When you bleed, stuff this in there. Don't worry about a thing. Someday you will be very very happy and meanwhile, don't think about it." And that was it. Subject closed. Parents are beautiful ignorant people and a child is a miracle, and they have no idea where it comes from, only that it complete their life in a wonderful way. That's all parents know about sex.”

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• Good eaters who went for recipes that start out Brown a pound of ground beef and six strips of bacon and in a separate pan melt a pound of butter.

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• Lake Wobegon was a pool of negativity. People who believed in disappointment.

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• Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.

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• You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories. And how we love them.

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• “If you require me to go to church, then it’s no longer faith, and when you make somebody pledge allegiance to a flag that stands for freedom—you are just being stupid.”

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• They said that God is love but nobody believed it for a minute. It was a culture of fussy women and silent angry men and horrified children.

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• and then one day she suddenly got very sick of herself and had to get away and she came back here. It’s peaceful here. You don’t have to be wonderful here. You can just be who you are.

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• one doesn’t like to generalize about Lutherans, one thing is most certainly true of every last one of them: the low point of their year is summer vacation. They are suspicious of pleasure.

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• I am also a romantic and we need to travel so we don’t get too disillusioned by people.

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• Mother used to say, “A son is a son until he takes a wife but a daughter is a daughter all of her life,”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Minneapolis
• California
• Minnesota
• America
• Chicago
• Main Street
• St. Cloud
• San Francisco
• St. Louis
• Avon
• New York
• Santa Cruz
• Chatterbox

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Garrison Keillor (Author)

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• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.54

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary