RUTH PERKINSON

"Some books are so good they set you on fire. This is one of those books, destined to become one of those classics everyone should read, and trust me, you will want to read this novel... This is a story about loss, guilt, love and loyalty. It is written with skill and scope, allowing us into a young girl's life, letting us see through her eyes, hear her voice, feel her fear and confusion and hope.  This novel should go on every library shelf, be on every required reading list, and earn its place alongside the book Piper eventually read, To Kill a Mockingbird, and other inspiring classics like it, those books we love to read and read again." - Bett Norris, December 2007
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Vera's Still Point
Vera Curran is in love with her own repression.  She’s a forty-year-old Republican gay librarian from a rural county in Virginia who gladly sustains her life by doing the same insipid routine day in and day out.  She wakes up, treks through her "shelving in the 900’s" days, and puts milk bones out for the dog each night before curling up to read a book and watch the world through her window.

Vera hasn’t had sex in years…and has forgotten exactly why. Then out of nowhere there is a new member of the faculty – Frankie Bourdon – an ex-Navy pilot who left the military to teach high school and to try and change the public school’s curriculum by adding homosexual sex education.  Before you know it, the two begin to forge a relationship that begins on a simple sticky note. 

Soon Vera is reminded of exactly what it is that she has been missing in life.

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