Delightfully eccentric characters prompt uptight Isabelle to color outside the lines.
All Isabelle (Belle) Marsden wants when she moves from Chicago to Kansas is a place to retreat and regain control of her life after an ugly #MeToo experience. But a chance encounter with a free-spirited artist who carries a wallaby in a baby sling and makes assemblages from roadkill draws her into a community of eccentrics who soon have her lobbying to rescue their Summer Solstice parade, conducting surveillance at a roadside zoo, and visiting an outsider artist’s bizarre sculpture garden. Inspired by that mad creation, Belle starts her own peculiar assemblage, convinced it's the key to repairing her life, fractured by losses and trauma. As she uncovers her hidden creativity—and madness—her assemblage lands her in trouble with her landlady, the city zoning department, even the police. Her only path to balance relies on help from her found family of oddball characters—and on her newly redefined self.
Fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine will be drawn to this tale of a woman whose search for a healing refuge leads instead to entanglements, discovery of untapped talent, and a found family that steers her back from the brink of madness.
