The Lost Queen of Crocker County: A Novel

by Elizabeth Leiknes

Overview

For fans of books like THE READERS OF BROKEN WHEEL RECOMMEND, a feel-good story of going home again to get things right.

Crocker County crowns a new Corn Queen every year, but Jane Willow's the one you would remember. She can't forget Iowa, either. Even though she fled to LA to become a film critic years ago, home was always there behind her.

But when a family tragedy happens, she's forced to drive back to Crocker County. The rolling farmlands can't much hide the things she left behind: the best friend she abandoned who now runs a meatloaf hotline, the childhood front porch that sits hauntingly empty, and that fiasco of a Corn Fest that spun her life in a different direction.

Before Jane can escape her past a second time, disaster strikes, and she will have to find a way to right her mistakes and save herself from her regrets. An unflinchingly love letter to the Midwest that unfolds through a celebration of movies, this ferociously endearing novel brings home the saving grace of second chances.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781492663799
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	07/10/2018
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	1,065,094
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Leiknes grew up in rural Iowa and can make thirty-seven dishes featuring corn. She graduated from the University of Iowa before receiving her master’s in writing from the University of Nevada, Reno. Her previous two novels received starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist. She lives with her husband and two children near Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

Editorial Reviews

"Leiknes’ latest (after 2017’s Black-Eyed Susan) takes the reader on an emotional roller-coaster ride, near tears at one moment and laughing out loud the next. Jane is a wisecracking character who grows emotionally over the course of the novel. A fairly open ending leaves room for a possible sequel. Recommended for fans of Jojo Moyes and Carol Rifka Brunt" — Booklist

"Elizabeth Leiknes writes her heroine with a wistful authority. The Lost Queen of Crocker County is a tale of the tenacity it takes to search one’s soul and find forgiveness there – and of the kind of grace that can only be found in your hometown." — Caroline Angell, author of All the Time in the World

"This heartwarming redemptive novel proves that you can indeed "go home again." ... What a charmer this book is! Highly recommended for female reading groups." — Nancy Simpson-Brice, Book Vault (Oskaloosa, IA)

"An unexpected modern fairy tale that will leave your head spinning." — Kaela Coble, author of Friends and Other Liars

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