The mouse preceded the tortoise.” Book Club Questionsġ. This is a worldwide contest for scientists to see who can make their lab mouse live the longest. Or rather, a contest for lab mice called the Methuselah Mouse Prize. In an interview, Jessica grant was asked what inspired her to write this book. Her first collection of short stories, Making Light of Tragedy, includes a story that won both the Western Magazine Award for Fiction and the Journey Prize. Jessica Grant is a member of Newfoundland’s Burning Rock Collective (members include Michael Winter and Lisa Moore). And we soon know that Audrey’s quest to discover who her father really was – and reunite with Winnifred – will be an adventure like no other. John’s we begin to realize there’s something, well, odd about her.
When Audrey disarms an Air Marshal en route to St. Despite her fear of flying, she goes to him, but not before she reluctantly dumps Winnifred with her unreliable friends. Oddly) Flowers is living quietly in Oregon with Winnifred, her tortoise, when she finds out her dear father has been knocked into a coma back in Newfoundland. A delightfully offbeat story that features an opinionated tortoise and an IQ-challenged narrator who find themselves in the middle of a life-changing mystery.Īudrey (a.k.a.
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