Here is a writer who has never met a metaphor or simile she couldn't put to good use. This much plot might sink a story, but Turnage makes it work. Jesse), a long-forgotten bank robbery, and a kidnapping. Mo (short for Moses) loves the Colonel and Lana, but she can't curb her curiosity: isn't anybody missing a lucky newborn? Mo scratches this itch by sending messages in bottles to her "Upstream Mother." Into this implausible but hilarious premise arrives an out-of-town detective, a dead body (cafe customer Mr. Both are taken in by Miss Lana, owner of the Tupelo Cafe. Eleven years ago, Mo LoBeau arrived in Tupelo Landing, N.C., a newborn baby girl washed downstream during a hurricane and rescued by "the Colonel," a stranger who can't remember anything about his own past.
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