Dancing on the Edge of the Roof

Dancing on the Edge of the Roofkept my heart and mind dancing through the pages. Sheila Williams, with her talent for detailed storytelling, expertly takes the reader on a poignant and humorous quest for self.Lori Bryant-Woolridge, author ofRead Between the LiesAt forty-one, Juanita Lewis is running away from home, courtesy of a one-way ticket to Montana, a place that seems about as far away from the violence and poverty of the Columbus, Ohio, projects as the moon. She wants adventure and excitementif such things exist for a pre-menopausal African American woman with three grown, deadbeat children. Juanitas new life in Paper Moon, Montana, begins at a local diner where a culinary face-off with chef and owner Jess Gardiner finds Juanita in front of Jesss stove serving up home cookin that lures the townsfolk like a magic spell. And suddenly Juanita, who was just passin through, now has a...