An OCEAN IN IOWA: A NOVEL (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of An OCEAN IN IOWA: A NOVEL Friday, July 31 2009.

• In a small town in Iowa, Scotty Ocean has announced that seven is going to be his year. It does turn out to be his year, but not quite the one he had imagined. It is the year his mother abandons the family. At first, Scotty does astonishing things to get her to return. When he realizes she won't be coming back, he decides he must replace her. And when that proves impossible, he takes the dramatic step of trying to remain seven forever. Funny, sad, and constantly surprising, An Ocean in Iowa explores the fragile contracts between parents and children and what it really means to grow up.

Shelfari edited the contributors of An OCEAN IN IOWA: A NOVEL Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a contributor: Peter Hedges: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of An OCEAN IN IOWA: A NOVEL Friday, July 17 2009.

• In the summer of 1969, if you had asked the then six-year-old Scotty Ocean what a judge actually did, he couldn't have told you-and why his parents never hugged or kissed, he would have been at a loss-and why his sisters kept whispering, giggling about girl matters, he would've had no idea.