[A] sweet, funny story … as good as Patty Jane’s House of Curl. -Minneapolis Star Tribune

Megastar of stage, screen, and television, Geneva Jordan now has a command performance
in Minnesota, where she agrees to look after her thirteen-year-old nephew, a boy
with Down’s syndrome, while his parents take a long-overdue vacation. Though Geneva
and her sister, Ann, are as different as night and day ( I being night, of course,
dark and dramatic ), Geneva remembers she had a family before she had a star on her
door. But so accustomed is she to playing the lead, finding herself a supporting
actress in someone else’s life is strange and unexplored territory. Then the discovery
of an old scrapbook that she and her sister created long ago starts her thinking
of things beyond fame. For The Great Mysterious is a collection of thoughts and feelings
dedicated to answering life’s big questions-far outside the spotlight’s glow…
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