The Rose Thieves
Schmidt, Jon Heidi / Schmidt, Heidi Jon
The Rose Thieves" gives us the Vanderwald family: flamboyant, hot-tempered Lila, who feels trapped living in a small New England town, her sentimental, eternally optimistic husband, a failed futures-market investor, and their children. An affectionate daughter steals flowers from gardens all over town for her big sister's sixteenth birthday. A tea party for the local minister is turned upside down by a four-year-old's remark. Sheep wander thro...