Dancing in Circles
Debra TashMainstream romance
Available from Amber Quill Press
ISBN: 1-59279-204-9
February 2004
| Seventeen year old Minnie knows something is going to change from the time she gets up that morning. It began to change when a particularly handsome man with sadness in his eyes came into the hardware store. After working all day for her father, she rides out in her girlfriend Shelly's model T. to watch a little traveling carnival set up. There is nothing to see at the carnival site but good-looking men. Suddenly Minnie is very nervous and wants to go home. Shelly angrily agrees, but her car won't start. The Boss comes over to help. It is the handsome man from the hardware store. The model T. is worthless, so he gives the girls a ride home and free passes to Minnie for her and her family. That's when things become interesting. The carnival is run by Goldie, a Jewish lady, so bobbeh, the grandmother approves of it. Goldie can do many things, but she just can't cook. Minnie takes a temporary job cooking hamburgers and hotdogs. Minnie's father likes Mr. Santori, the Boss, because he likes classical music, and because he brings Minnie home at night himself. Santori talks Running Bare, Minnie's little brother, into wearing clothes by telling him he'll get a job if he wears clothes. Minnie takes her heart into her hands and leaves town with the carnival, but when Santori finds out she's only 17, he's ready to send her home. She must prove that she is a woman worthy of his love and capable of taking the sadness from his eyes.
Dancing in circles is a terrific story. The characters are delightful. There is no way I could tell you all the things that Minnie had to go through in her days with the carnival, and Debra Tash is a much better job than I could anyway. I enjoyed the differences between those days and our days. This is a tale of how Minnie matures. The trouble is. I don't think she's quite made it yet. You decide.
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Reviewer: Judy Cook |
