| International Standard Book Number |
9780593733356 electronic book
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780593733349 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593733347 hardcover
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| Personal Name |
Whitaker, Kayla Rae, author.
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| Title Statement |
Returns and exchanges : a novel / Kayla Rae Whitaker.
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| Edition Statement |
First U.S. edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Random House, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
416 pages ; 25 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
It's December 24, 1979, just before closing at Baker-Taylor's discount department store, and Fran (nee Baker) is surveying her domain. Her husband, Fred, is charming customers in the front of the store, while last-minute shoppers in the toy aisle are fighting over the lone remaining Atari. The older Taylor kids are on register, while the younger ones' chaos is contained to the stockroom. All is right in the world as the new decade approaches. With four healthy children and financial stability their own parents could have only dreamed of, Fred and Fran are the picture of the American Dream--rags to riches--with a chain of family-owned stores built on years of hard work and long hours. Underneath the surface, however, the business is changing at a breakneck pace, and each member of the family is struggling to keep up. Money is transforming Fred, and the extremes he will go to in order to fit in with the slicked-back high society crowd of Lexington, Kentucky, are embarrassing, if not downright dangerous. Josiah, the oldest son, wants nothing to do with the family business; Sam is seeing things that might not really be there; and Benny and Birdie are growing up with a fraction of the parenting that their older brothers had. Meanwhile, Fran, her family's stable core, is falling for Wendy, a cashier at Baker-Taylor's, risking everything along the way. While trying to maintain the facade of a perfect success story, Fred and Fran learn that in matters of love and money, once it's gone, it's gone--no returns, no exchanges-- Front book flap.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Families Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Family-owned business enterprises Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
American Dream Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nineteen eighties Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Department stores Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Southern States Social life and customs Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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