Publisher's Synopsis
Molly Bowser is a thirty-five-year-old woman with a questionable reputation who has led a miserable life marked by an unhappy childhood. Now a widow, she has resigned herself to the fact that her possibilities for remarrying are all but nonexistent. So instead of focusing on whatever last hope she might have for herself, Molly decides to turn her efforts to finding a husband for her sixteen-year-old daughter, Lily. The novel's humorous scenes belie Caldwell's keen sense of a life lived on the margins of respectable society. "Molly Bowser es una mujer de treinta y cinco anos con una reputacion dudosa quien ha vivido una vida miserable marcada por una infancia desgraciada. Ahora que es viuda, se ha resignado al hecho de que sus posibilidades para volverse a casar son practicamente inexistentes. Por eso es que, en vez de enfocarse en cualquier ultima esperanza que podria tener para si misma, Molly decide volcar su empeno en conseguirle un marido a su hija de dieciseis anos, Lily. Las humoristicas escenas de la novela ocultan el sentido agudo de Caldwell de la vida a los margenes de la sociedad respetable."
