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The Great Novel Race 2008:
Feels Like Home
by Crystal Crawford
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Allison Johnson returns home to Westfield, Florida, after long-term cancer has finally claimed her mother’s life. However, as she attempts to sort through the possessions in her mother’s home, she finds herself suddenly enveloped in a whole side of her mother’s life she never knew existed, realizing that in the five years since she’d last been to visit, her widowed mother had taken on a multitude of interesting hobbies, not the least of which being a mysterious male friend; and even more intriguing, her mother seems to have left Allison a cryptic trail of messages, handwritten on various photographs, papers, and other objects. While Allison at first believes the messages are random bits of poetry, or even that her mother may have been going a bit senile, as her interaction with her mother’s many friends and acquaintances continues, she comes to believe that there is a method to it all, and to become consumed with her quest to uncover her mother’s elaborate last message.
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