Two Over Easy All Day Long - Lane, Shari
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When the president of a toy company, guilty of a tragic negligence, is sentenced to a year of minimum-wage work in an Oregon diner, he loses his familiar Manhattan privileges. But Giles Gibson, now "Tony," gradually learns to appreciate the tangles and complexities of "ordinary" lives, and those who somehow manage to keep on going with compassion and wit. The diner's (secretly kindhearted) boss has other secrets too, as does the curmudgeonly cook. (He'd gone AWOL from Vietnam half a century earlier.) Much of the novel is set in Sunnyside Up, the diner where staff and customers mingle. There's…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
When the president of a toy company, guilty of a tragic negligence, is sentenced to a year of minimum-wage work in an Oregon diner, he loses his familiar Manhattan privileges. But Giles Gibson, now "Tony," gradually learns to appreciate the tangles and complexities of "ordinary" lives, and those who somehow manage to keep on going with compassion and wit. The diner's (secretly kindhearted) boss has other secrets too, as does the curmudgeonly cook. (He'd gone AWOL from Vietnam half a century earlier.) Much of the novel is set in Sunnyside Up, the diner where staff and customers mingle. There's a drug ring just outside town, headed by the ex-sheriff, a lavender farm whose workers tend to be undocumented, a gay couple who aren't quite in or out of the closet.... Each character is an individual, created uniquely by Shari Lane's colors, textures, language, subtle symbols, and deep sense of balance.
Autorenporträt
Shari Lane was reading voraciously by the time she entered kindergarten, and has been writing for almost as long. (Her first novel, hand-written and stapled together for her family, followed magical guinea pigs.) Her adult bio is multidimensional: teacher, mother, lawyer, arbitrator, advocate--all adding up to POSSIBILIST. She started with an MA in Classics, taught Latin to middle schoolers and headed a Montessori preschool. After she earned her law degree, passing the bar in Oregon and Washington State, she briefly ran an employment business, then worked for employers with human resources departments, and earned her Arbitration certificate. She wound up building bridges, helping migrant farmworkers and their families, advocating for unhoused and food insecure people. Seeing two sides, building bridges. Along the way, she wrote. Currently Shari Lane lives with her husband and dog on Lopez Island, WA, where she serves on the Library Board of Trustees, hosts a weekly open mic for writers, and serves as managing editor for SHARK REEF Literary Magazine. See her website: www.sharilane.com.