Jane lives in a small Michigan town and works as one of the elementary school's two second grade teachers. She doesn't have many friends, she buys almost everything in her house from the thrift store, and her boyfriend, Duncan, is the woodworker who has slept with just about every woman in town. Over the course of several years, Jane settles into her life, creating a family with Duncan, his bossy ex-wife and her odd new husband, Jane's mandolin-playing best friend, and Jimmy, Duncan's mentally challenged assistant. It's an odd life, yes, and sometimes particularly challenging, but it is what it is.
This was an odd, but oddly likeable book. Basically the entire plot is spelled out in that paragraph above, but the book is so much more about the relationships between the characters, and the humor of life. A quiet novel, but a good one.
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