Stranger Places: A Pie Town Novel - Paperback

by Td Whittle (Author), Sandra Peterson Ramirez (Author)

"The town is talking to you, Ava."Ava's watch has died, and the mobile phone she's found in her bag reads "No Service." Her memory is spotty and her imagination is running wild.This isolated town in the West Texas desert is the strangest place she's ever been.She isn't sure she can trust the locals, who range from hostile to strangely familiar. Is she paranoid, or is half the town avoiding her?Maybe so, but she is intrigued by the town's architecture, charmed by its quirky inhabitants, and delighted by its endless supply of fresh pie. She believes that the town and its people harbor secrets about her life and, the longer she stays, the more she recalls of the events that triggered her two-year odyssey.Does Pie Town hold the key to Ava's lost sense of self? Can it teach her about the nature of time, existence, the universe? Can she finally find love and friendship in this most unlikely of places? To find her answers, she'll first have to learn to think like the locals, confront her dreams, and survive the motel swimming pool that beckons her to its depths.