Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale

Lynda Rutledge

Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 2012 - Fiction - 289 pages

On the last day of the millennium, sassy Faith Bass Darling, the richest old lady in Bass, Texas, decides to have a garage sale. With help from a couple of neighborhood boys, Faith lugs her priceless Louis XV elephant clock, countless Tiffany lamps, and everything else from her nineteenth-century mansion out onto her long, sloping lawn.

Why is a recluse of twenty years suddenly selling off her dearest possessions? Becasue God told her to.

As the townspeople grab up five generations of heirlooms, everyone drawn to the sale--including Faith's lon-lost daughter--finds that the antiques not only hold family secrets but also inspire some of life's most imponderable questions: Do our possessions possess us? What are we without our memories? Is there life after death or second chances here on earth? And is Faith really selling that Tiffany lamp for $1?
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Review: Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale

User Review  - Bev - Goodreads

Faith, 70 something, in the later stages of dementia/alzheimers, wakes up on the last day of 1999 (millennial hysteria in full force) with a revelation that all her worldly possessions are to be sold ...

Review: Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale

User Review  - Susan - Goodreads

The title of this book made me think it was going to be a girlfriends-type fun novel, but it was NOT. Oh, so definitely not. Mother-daughter beyond-troubled relationship; Alzheimer's; small-town ...

About the author

Lynda Rutledge, a fifth-generation Texan, has petted baby rhinos, snorkeled with endangered turtles, and dodged hurricanes as a freelance journalist, while winning awards for her fiction. She and her husband live outside Austin. This is her debut novel.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale
• Author: Lynda Rutledge
• Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 2012
• ISBN: 0399157190, 9780399157196
• Length: 289 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Contemporary Women; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary