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Eleven year old Miss Moses LoBeau is three times lucky: First that her upstream mother tied her to a makeshift raft during the hurricane and sent her to safety; Second that The Colonel crashed his car and rescued Mo that night before the flood, And third that Miss Lana of Tupelo Landing took Mo in and gave her a home.
It’s a good thing that Mo has all this luck - because trouble has come to Tupelo landing. Trouble in the form of city slick detective, a murder, a long-ago bank robbery, a kidnappi ...more
It’s a good thing that Mo has all this luck - because trouble has come to Tupelo landing. Trouble in the form of city slick detective, a murder, a long-ago bank robbery, a kidnappi ...more
I had some small quibbles with the police interactions not quite making sense, but overall this was an excellent and moving story. Some of it would clearly only work in a small town, but the café setting was so quirky and goofy that it was delightful. Mo's attempts to find her mother were really great, but her detective skills were what really made the story.
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Mo has a great voice and ranks right up there with other greats of fiction who are old beyond their years.
I need time to write up my review but loved the audiobook for this one. Michal Freidman was incredible.
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