Michele Good reads from “The Book of Polly” by Kathy Hepinstall. Fourteen year-old Willow Havens has spent the spring and summer getting to know her older brother, Shel, who ended up moving back into the house after his wife left him. Shel’s a wreck … depressed, self-pitying, often drunk. But he’s a good big brother, he’s pretty handy with fixing boat motors and most importantly, he talks…a LOT which is fine with Willow because she wants to know everything…about him, about Polly, and their father, the Captain. If she bides her time, one day, the story of Garland just might spill out of him.
