Lonesome Ballroom Author|Jodi R. Pfarr and Allison Boisvert With the help and encouragement

With the help and encouragement of the villagers of Santaville and the reindeer the Polar bears fly saving Christmas and Santa keeps his promise to all good children everywhere on Christmas Eve bringing them the gifts of their dreams

" - Beverly Haines nursery school director of twenty-five years

Congratulations on this wonderful achievement

What a beautiful gift she's given to readers: proof there can be hope

Lonesome Ballroom Author|Jodi R. Pfarr and Allison Boisvert With the help and encouragementMeet Betty Blockdocile daughter, woebegone wife, aspiring aspirant, and anti heroine for the ages! Or is the narrator of Madeline McDonnell's farcical, heartbreaking, and formally brilliant first novel just another woman caught in the sneakily patriarchal plots of the early aughts? And has she left her ostensibly sensitive husband for an hour or two or forever? As Betty pulls up a chair at the Lonesome Ballroom and tries to explain herself to Lizzie,