![]() ![]() Truly, growing larger by the day, agrees to move in with Robert to help raise sweetly effeminate Bobbie. Robert and Amelia are called to identify her dead body in a nearby town. Shortly after their return to Aberdeen with seven-year-old Bobbie, Serena runs off. ![]() They marry and head to Buffalo where they remain for eight years while Bob Bob morphs into Dr. Popular Serena seems the lucky one, until doctor’s son Bob Bob date rapes and impregnates her. She finds a friend in Amelia Dyerson, whose poverty and learning disabilities make her an outsider like Truly, and in Marcus Thompson, another misfit because he’s so smart. The snobbish minister’s wife takes in conventionally pretty Serena, while freakishly large Truly ends up on the Dyersons’ hardscrabble farm. Debut novelist Baker attempts a contemporary fable about an epically proportioned young woman searching for love and acceptance in her upstate New York hometown.Īfter her mother dies giving birth to her, Truly Plaice grows up with petite sister Serena Jane under their father’s care until his death when Truly is 12. ![]()
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