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Follow on Google News | Pandemic "free time" enables publication of first novel by 83-year-old authorA compelling story of determination, human connections and hidden intrigue in small town life.
Adele Kopecky always felt Beth's story should be commemorated, and after retiring at age 65, she started writing. Initially, Adele told the story in Beth's voice, and when that felt too limiting, experimented with having the two daughters tell it in alternating chapters. Adele started and stopped work on the book for 15 years. Finally, at age 83, when the pandemic jettisoned her busy calendar -- weekly writing group, twice-weekly tennis games, book club, literacy class on idiom usage she'd been teaching at a local library -- Adele had the uninterrupted time to finish Small Town, Big Rug. Small Town, Big Rug moves back and forth in time (1912 to 1991), with changing points of view presented by a young male journalist assigned to write Beth's obituary. Long ago scandals and cover-ups come to light as he digs into Beth's history, at the same time dealing with his own blossoming love affair and the effects of his grandfather's Alzheimer's disease on his family. (Fictionalized as Iroquois in the book, the public library in Adele's real-life hometown in Western Pennsylvania invited her to return for a book reading in September 2021, 60+ years after she moved away to the "big city" to work for Delta Airlines.) Small Town, Big Rug is available in print and e-book format through Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/ About the Author A resident of Orange County, California for more than 50 years, Adele earned a Master's degree in speech communication and worked as a speech pathologist in both the public and private sectors. Her "accent improvement" End
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