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Saint Maybe. Ian Bedloe is the main character in "Saint Maybe."
identity crisis. Rebecca isn't sure she has turned out to be the person she was originally destined to be.
Both are shopping in a supermarket.. Delia's husband calls Adrian "Adrian Fried-Rice."
Dr. Sam Grinstead. Both Maggie's and Delia's husbands are fairly steady, sensible men who love their wives but think they are flighty or ditzy.
He's afraid people won't think he's trustworthy.. As a teenager, Barnaby robbed houses. He's also a divorced dad who doesn't see his daughter very often.
Baltimore . Anne Tyler lives in Baltimore, too, though she did not grow up there.
Pulitzer. In my opinion, "Saint Maybe" was just as good.
Min Foo. The book says Min Foo looked Asian when she was born, though she isn't. She and her half-sisters (Rebecca's step-daughters) all have straight, thick, black hair.
Rebecca feels glad she turned out as she did.. I hope Rebecca will marry Zeb, but who knows?
Reverend Davitt. Reverend Davitt was the first minister of Holy Basis church, where Saul found his 'calling'. Charlotte always wished that Saul had never gone {there;} she felt she lost him to Holy Basis. Reverend Davitt died of lung cancer (one of God's little jokes--he didn't hold with smoking).
pumpkin . The menu was: two pumpkin chiffon pies, Gram's marshmallow-yam casserole, Sophia's Crock-Pot applesauce cake, and Opal's tossed salad. This was thanks to Wicky, who didn't organize ahead of time.
| What was the name of the lifeguard in 'Morgan's Passing' who saved Robert Roberts from walking straight into the ocean with all his clothes on? | The Works of Anne Tyler
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Danny Hendrix. Robert Roberts was devastated about Brindle's having left {him;} he just started walking into the ocean. Morgan and his brother-in-law went after him, but Danny Hendrix was too quick. Morgan then pretended to be from Parks and Safety.
Oakes . Jenny was introduced to Oakes seconds before she saw Josiah {again;} Pearl came out of the bathroom just at that moment and screamed at her.
Silver Threads. In 'Breathing Lessons', Maggie worked at Silver Threads. In 'A Patchwork Planet', Barnaby picked Maud May up from Silver Threads after she broke her hip.
Eli Everjohn. in 'Searching for Caleb', Eli finds Caleb for the Peck family. In 'Saint Maybe', he tracks down Thomas and Agatha's father for Ian.
Radcliffe. Madame Olita described her mother, who was a gypsy, but made the mistake of marrying a high school civics teacher. Madame Olita and her sister were both sent to Radcliffe.
| In 'A Patchwork Planet', how much money was Barnaby supposed to have stolen from Mrs. Glynn? | The Works of Anne Tyler
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Two thousand, nine hundred and sixty dollars. Mrs. Glynn kept the money in her flour bin and told all and sundry where she kept it. When she 'lost' it (really transfered it to a different place and forgot about it), she blamed Barnaby.
Buick. She got her driver's license and bought a car when she started to go see Gina.
| In 'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant', what was the name of Cody's girlfriend who didn't truly appreciate Ezra? | The Works of Anne Tyler
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Her name was never made clear. Cody forgot her name. It was Carol--or maybe Karen--through the entire book. She called Ezra a 'motherly man, always feeding'.
| In 'Breathing Lessons', what color did Serena tell Maggie she was going to dye her wedding dress after her wedding? | The Works of Anne Tyler
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Purple. She said she might as well get some use out of it.
| In 'Searching for Caleb', what was the age Uncle Two, Uncle Mark, and Uncle Dan decided was time to retire? | The Works of Anne Tyler
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68. That was why only Uncle Two could come to give his father the services of Eli Everjohn for his {birthday;} the other two hadn't retired yet.
Pale purple. She wore it when Miss Pennington came to dinner with a buckskin jacket.
a bowling ball. Lucy mails Tom his bowling ball - the first chapter of the book is called, fittingly, "The Airmail Bowling Ball". To mail it first class, which is what Lucy wanted to do, would have cost her twenty dollars and twenty-seven cents. Her future husband, Danny, told her to mail it parcel post, which was cheaper. And she did; therefore, the rest is history. In the TV version of "Saint Maybe", Lucy was played by Mary Louise Parker, Ruth from "Fried Green Tomatoes".
Bachelor. Ian was babysitting for the children - Thomas, Agatha, and baby Daphne- when Danny arrives home, drunk, from his friend's bachelor party. Ian tells Danny that baby Daphne can't be his, and he takes his own life by driving his car into a retaining wall.
Dulcimer. If you've read the book that question shouldn't have been hard at all. Thomas named the doll, which disturbed Ian, Dulcimer, which is a variation on Thomas and Agatha's real last name, Dulcimore.
fried chicken and devil's food cake. Grandma Bedloe brings fried chicken shortly after Danny dies. Bee thinks that Lucy might be an alcoholic and asks Agatha if her mother drinks beer or wine, maybe a little cocktail now and then. The drink that really gets Lucy up and going is Coke with a little instant coffee stirred in. Maybe the taste of it is what got her up and around!
Winston. Ian's bizarre college roommate is named Winston Mills. Some of the things that Winston brings to school with him are a beer stein that tinkles "How Dry I Am" and a hand shaped butterfly chair. He also loved bad horror movies and "syrupy love comics".
Halloween. Bee telephones Ian at college and tells him that Lucy has passed away. Agatha had called her and told her that Mama wouldn't wake up. They probably could have saved her if the hospital had been called sooner, but Bee didn't want to upset the children by telling them that.
shoplifting . Ian learns this when Mrs. Myrdal, an older lady who used to watch the children, tells him. "Swiped a pure silk blouse right off the rack...red and white Italian scarf scampers into her bag." This makes Ian feel terrible because he had led Danny to believe that Lucy had a lover, which was where her expensive new clothes were coming from, and therefore that the lover was the father of Daphne.
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