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But their lives quickly unravel as their father's lucrative catering business collapses. When their father disappears suddenly, he is presumed dead, sending their mother spiraling into an apparent breakdown. The girls are wrenched from their mother and dumped into foster care in a working-class neighborhood in the home of Mae, a politically connected card shark. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough Mae lavishes affection onto her foster children, she is abusive to her own child, Ramona, a twenty-something stunning beauty. 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The girls are wrenched from their mother, and as the novel opens they are living in foster care in a working-class neighborhood in the home of Mae, a politically connected card shark. Though Mae is filled with syrupy names like \"pudding\" and \"doll face\" for the foster girls, she is abusive to her own child, Ramona, a twenty-something stunning beauty. 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But her world is about to shift when the smell of butter lingers in the air and Johnson--the boy from the back streets of Philadelphia who pulled her into the fire of passion and all the shadows cast from it--returns to town.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"this story of self-discovery that moves seamlessly between the early 1970s and early 1990s\" (\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review), McKinney-Whetstone takes readers into a world of erotic love, drugs, and political activism, and beautifully illustrates the struggle to reconcile passion with accountability and the redemptive powers of love's rediscovery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy aunt says if you smell butter on a foggy night you're getting ready to fall in love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the last twenty years, the beautiful Verdi Mae has led a comfortable life with Rowe, the conservative professor who rescued her from addiction when she was an undergrad. 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