Sweet & Crazy

Book Description

anna, the recently widowed mother of a dynamic kinder-gartner, Pete, teaches writing workshops to older women in Ash Creek, Ohio. A month after the death of her husband, the World Trade Center is attacked. Pete's best friend, Omar, is the son of Mazur, an Indian who runs the local cleaners. In the wake of 9/11, anyone the least bit different is suspect in this small town. Hanna's neighbor, Thomas, is a cooper at the eighteenth-century colonial restora-tion outside town. Romance develops as Hanna struggles with the challenges of racism and single motherhood as this once-peaceful community comes to terms with a bewildering new century.