- A hop, skip and a jump from here
- What the Sam Hill–?
- What in tarnation–?
- I’ll be a monkey’s uncle
- A month of Sundays
- Once in a blue moon
- Can’t teach an old dog new tricks
- No fool like an old fool
- Raining cats and dogs
- Curiosity killed the cat
- Hold your horses
- For Pete’s sake
- For the love of Mike
- For crying out loud
- You can’t get blood from a turnip
- Blood is thicker than water
- Blood will tell
- So help me Hannah
- Jeepers!
- Jeepers Creepers!
- I’ll betcha two bits
- Up the creek without a paddle
- Scarce as hens’ teeth
- Hubba hubba
- My stars and garters
- Hotter than a gangster’s pistol
- It’s the cat’s pajamas…the cat’s meow… the bee’s knees…
- He’d lie when the truth would serve him better
- She looked as if she’d been dragged through a knothole backwards
- It’s a pip or pipperoo
- There are more hoses’ behinds than there are horses
- Whipper-snapper
- I’ve got a hitch in my git-along
- It’s not where you sit on Sundays but where you stand the rest of the week
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Critics praise Gardenias
It’s 1942, just a month after the United States entered World War II. Lark, her mother Arlene, and Aunt Betty are in a station changing trains, leaving their lives in Harvester, Minnesota behind, and waiting for the train going to Los Angeles. Young men — soldiers — swarm the platform, heading off to war. Against this dramatic backdrop, Gardenias revisits Faith Sullivan’s most beloved characters from The Cape Ann, taking them from their hometown to new lives, new dreams, and new risks. Arlene has left her husband behind after he gambled away the money she’d saved to finally build the Cape Ann house of her and Lark’s Depression-era dreams. As a new life takes shape in San Diego in a wartime housing project full of neighbors they know little about, Lark wonders, as does the reader, if a dream means losing everything of value or finally finding it.
Critics praise Gardenias
“Gardenias proves that even life’s missed opportunities can offer some of the most rewarding story lines.”
Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Fans won’t be disappointed.”
St. Paul Pioneer Press
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