TY - SER
KW - adoption
KW - middle-aged people
KW - neighbors
AU - Sharon Dilworth
AB - Caroline, a married, maternal, middle-aged woman, loses her job with the City of Pittsburgh and turns her time and attention to her Shadyside neighbors. One is Barbara, childless and single, who tries to adopt of Chinese baby girl, while Maggie is friendly, dynamic, and a scholar of Asian Studies. When Caroline gets a crush on Maggie's husband Allan—a Scotsman—“dark truths simmer away below polite urban surfaces,” warns the cover copy.
C1 - 2000s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Shadyside; Downtown; North Side; Allegheny Center; Children's Museum of Pittsburgh; South Side; Strip District; Oakland; Phipps Conservatory; Squirrel Hill; Frick Park; Butler County; Slippery Rock; Cranberry Twp.; Crawford C
C4 - Literary; Women’s
CY - Glasgow, Scotland
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Caroline, a married, maternal, middle-aged woman, loses her job with the City of Pittsburgh and turns her time and attention to her Shadyside neighbors. One is Barbara, childless and single, who tries to adopt of Chinese baby girl, while Maggie is friendly, dynamic, and a scholar of Asian Studies. When Caroline gets a crush on Maggie's husband Allan—a Scotsman—“dark truths simmer away below polite urban surfaces,” warns the cover copy.
PB - Unbound Press
PP - Glasgow, Scotland
PY - 2010
RN - Sharon Dilworth  (1958— ) was born in Detroit and earned her MFA at the University of Michigan. She is an author and teaches creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University.
EP - 232 p.
TI - Year of the Gingko
ER -