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The Inn at Walnut Valley

出版	Xlibris Corporation LLC, 2009-04
主題	Fiction / General
ISBN	14363968329781436396837
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QIyGPgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Zorita is born and she is the pride of her young mother, Pearl, and her mother's older lover, Miss Ada. As the two women raise the girl they tell little Zorita everything they feel she need to know, no matter how far-fetched or taboo for the child's innocent mind. The two women are happy raising their daughter. But at age fourteen Zorita becomes pregnant. It sends the parents into a spiral of anger and they lock the teenager in the windowless basement during her pregnancy. When it is time for Zorita to deliver, Miss Ada is right there. To Pearl's horror, the infant is stillborn. Zorita is forced to remain in the basement while Miss Ada travels in search for a new home in another state. The older woman finds a place for them to live in Timberland, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Timberland's Lincoln High School, Zorita's life takes on an even rockier course. The men she marry each leave her heartbroken; plus she is estranged from her unconventional parents. Zorita finds solace upon purchasing The Inn at Walnut Valley. She changes the inn's reputation from a seedy flop-house, to a more respectable establishment. Becoming the proprietor of the newly-acquired inn seems to set Zorita's life back onto smoother grounds. Junior Walker and the All-Stars, The Ohio Players, and The Righteous Brothers rock her place during special occasions. The Inn at Walnut Valley becomes the focal point of the young lady's life. The new inn owner meets some pretty colorful clientele. These patrons come to her place to party and find a place to rest their head. And man, do they have some stories to tell.