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...Miami, gets mistaken for his wife by an overtaxed immigration officer and decides to exploit the error. Families, it seems, have a better chance of attracting sponsorship-and thus escaping from the refugee camps-than singles do. For good measure, she adds a son (a street kid) and a grandpa (a silent, nutty old guy with a habit of shedding his clothes and climbing trees, hoping to glimpse his lost homeland) to her surrogate brood...
...third storyline in the novel, Fisher detours to another setting by giving focus to her mother and grandfather. They abduct Grandpa from the nursing home where he was so rudely placed by his second wife, and take him "home" to Texas...
...with William--surely his death was more than just a stall tactic? Even her jokes are starting to falter ("Berth and birth--she attempted to wrangle the words into a suitable pun, but nothing come.") And now Fisher has given us another invalid to contend with, the unsympathetic, addled Grandpa...
...Grandpa's plight, however, is secondary to the fact that Cora is on this journey for herself. With the aid of her eccentric, truth-dispensing mother ("A clean colon does wonders for the will to live"), Cora come to the conclusion that "things did not always go as you planned, much less make a handy brand of the right kind of sense." We can only hope that this tidbit of knowledge will make her a better mother than she was grown...
...Thanksgiving day: the turkey was about to go in the oven. The pies were available for inspection. There were even cheese and garlic grits on the stove, thanks to a chef from Arkansas. But where were mom and dad, Aunt Gracie and Grandpa George...