A sweet, and moving book that looks with nostalgic longing toward times that are just at that moment passing. Manny, the long-time manager of a soon-to-be-closing Red Lobster has to make sure the crew of his seafood restaurant gets through one last long day. He knew coming in that some of the staff wouldn't show up for work, why would they? Manny can only take five of them on to his next gig at a local Olive Garden, everyone else is on their own, looking for a new job. It's also the last shopping day before Christmas, and Manny needs to get a gift for his pregnant girlfriend and all of it is complicated by the way he still feels for one of the waitresses, Jacquie. He still loves her and is just about ready, at any given moment , to chuck awy all he has and run off with her. If she wanted to. Which she doesn't. The blizzard descending on the restaurant heightens the mood, and softens the scenes. As with his more recent novel, Emily, Alone, O'Nan's wonderful writing can make the most pedestrian, everyday subject a thing of beauty.Check our catalog.
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