| Old Testament Eyes
Tyler is more than slightly mad, but tries to stay upbeat about it. She lives with her husband and overweight daughter in a proper house on a proper street in Jackson, Mississippi. She deserts house and family to move in with her father who has had a stroke. She figures by helping her father, she will heal herself. His disability aggravates her illness, and her attempts to help tend to work hilariously and horribly the other way.
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Pauley, a food writer, is smugly content with her Miami life: a dull husband, a cushy job with a magazine, and her well-regarded self. An encounter with a beggar starts a series of events that deprives her of these satisfactions. Stripped of everything she counted on, Pauley has to make her own way home.
Watkins was a food writer for South Florida Magazine, and suffered the same delusions of adequacy that afflict the character.
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