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Diane Dryden
Double or Nothing on Foster Ave.
“An evocative novel by veteran journalist Diane Dryden”
—JERRY JENKINS
Sarah Gold’s got roommate problems, but she’s not about to admit it to her overbearing parents, who think she can’t make any decisions for herself. They weren’t crazy about her living alone in the big city of Chicago anyway. “Why not settle down with a nice Jewish boy?” her mother constantly argues.
But Sarah longs for something more—to change the world in even a small way. Through a chance encounter at a local diner, she finds a huge Victorian brick boarding house run by the grandmotherly Sophie. Young people come and go, as they make their way in life. Could this makeshift family be what Sarah’s been longing for? A place that’s safe enough to put the missing piece of her past to rest?
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The Accidental King of Clark Street
Leon McKee believes his life is going nowhere. A widower at 50, he begins walking the streets of Chicago to fill the lonely hours.
Vivian manages the Band Box Cleaners & Laundry on North Clark Street. She’s accepted her dull life as what she expects to have at her age.
But could they both be wrong? When Leon answers an ad to be a night watchman at the Band Box Cleaners, their lives—and the neighborhood of Clark Street—are turned upside down.
The Accidental King of Clark Street, set in the 1960s, proves that love can bloom the second time around. Or is it really the first time?
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DIANE DRYDEN is a feature writer for the Washburn County Register in Shell Lake, Wisconsin. She’s also freelanced for numerous newspapers and magazines. She was born and raised in Chicago.
“All the places I wrote about in The Accidental King of Clark Street existed when I was growing up,” she says.
She’s working on the sequel, so stay tuned for more about these wonderful, quirky characters.