Clock Dance by Anne Tyler

Monday, January 7 through Friday, February 1, 2019. Read by Jim Fleming.

Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother’s sudden disappearance. In 1977, she is a college coed considering a marriage proposal. In 1997, she is a young widow trying to piece her life back together. And in 2017, she yearns to be a grandmother. Then, one day, Willa receives a startling phone call from a stranger. Without fully understanding why, she flies across the country to Baltimore to look after a young woman she’s never met. A bewitching novel of hope and transformation, Clock Dance gives us Anne Tyler at the height of her powers.

(Knopf; ISBN: 0525521224)

THEME: “Just Like A Woman” by Bill Frisell from the album “Have A Little Faith”