A Small Crowd Of Strangers

Description for A SMALL CROWD OF STRANGERS by Joanna Rose:

How does a librarian from New Jersey end up in a convenience store on Vancouver Island in the middle of the night, playing Bible Scrabble with a Korean physicist and a drunk priest? She gets married to the wrong man for starters?she didn't know he was 'that kind of Catholic'?and ends up in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She gets a job in a New Age bookstore, wanders toward Buddhism without realizing it, and acquires a dog. Things get complicated after that. Pattianne Anthony is less a thinker than a dreamer, and she finds out the hard way that she doesn't want a husband, much less a baby, and that getting out of a marriage is a lot harder than getting into it, especially when the landscape of the west becomes the voice of reason. A SMALL CROWD OF STRANGERS, Joanna Rose?ÇÖs second novel, is part love story, part slightly sideways spiritual journey.