Take your cue from her and find refuge in Mason, a place blessedly free of the political chaos we now know as "real life." As Lucille gets a website, a direct-deposit system and custom pastry boxes, Iris becomes adept at the alchemical uses of butter and flour. Having heard about Mason from her college roommate years ago, Iris imagines it the perfect refuge: "One river, one cemetery, one department store, with wooden floors and a ribbon department."Īfter striking out at the day care center, where she ends up crying too hard to fill out the application, Iris takes a job as Lucille's assistant. In this second installment, she's alone again, but only for a moment, as her fate entwines with Lincoln, the little boy whose family buys the house next door, and Iris, a childless divorcee who has just moved to town from Boston. Lucille was introduced in the first volume of Berg's Mason, Missouri, series, 2017's " The Story of Arthur Truluv," as a lifelong spinster who is given one brief chance at true love. The characters in Elizabeth Berg's new novel, "Night of Miracles" (Random House, 267 pp., ★★★½ out of four), frequently sit down to lovingly described treats fresh from the oven. Lucille Howard, 88, is a master baker and baking teacher who begins every class with samples served on a cut-crystal pedestal. How about a nice slice of cake? Caramel, maybe? Or yellow, with milk chocolate buttercream frosting?
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