Joni Rodgers, Author . HarperCollins $23.95 (358p) ISBN 978-0-06-083138-7
Rodgers's somber novel (following her memoir Bald in the Land of Big Hair
), weaves a tapestry of three Houston women's lives, each touched by bereavement. Pia, a high-powered career woman and mother of grown twin sons, unravels after the...
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Joni Rodgers, Author MacAdam/Cage Publishing $24 (361p) ISBN 978-1-878448-73-6
Using the vast Big Sky country of Montana as a backdrop, Rodgers chronicles a confused young woman's journey of self-discovery circa 1979 in this uneven, mildly entertaining first novel. Dumped by her handsome artist lover and reeling from the death
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Joni Rodgers, Author Spinsters Ink Books $12 (346p) ISBN 978-1-883523-32-9
The girl-power quotient runs high in Rodgers's alternately wrenching and humorous follow-up to her debut, Crazy for Trying, a finalist for the 1996 Barnes & Noble Discover Award. The daughters of a show biz-minded mother, Kit and Kiki Smithers spent
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Joni Rodgers, Author HarperCollins $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-019588-5
At first blush, a lighthearted romp through the horrors of chemotherapy seems like a stretch. Yet that is just what Rodgers has attempted with considerable success in this memoir of her bout with cancer. Even Rodgers admits, ""I didn't find cancer...
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