The narrator of Meredith Sue Willis's new novel has just turned
forty, quit her job, been jilted by her live-in boyfriend and
suspended by her therapist for nonpayment. Against her better
judgment, she takes a job at a settlement house known as "Love
Palace" in a run-down community that is about to be razed for urban
renewal. Here Martha discovers that she has a talent for managing
the dysfunctional institution and its staff. She is attracted by
the charismatic reverend who oversees Love Palace as well as by
Robby, one of the staff members, who is rich, handsome, recently
released from a hospital after a suicide attempt, and intensely
ambivalent about his sexuality. Along with the Love Palace crew of
runaways, derelicts, struggling blue collar workers, and a former
Black Panther among others, Martha has to deal with her
ex-hillbilly mother, who favors shoulder pads and big hair; her
sister the big-shot lawyer; and her dying Jewish grandmother.
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