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Shoulder season, Christina Clancy

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Shoulder season

Christina Clancy

The small town of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin is an unlikely location for a "family-friendly" Playboy resort, and nineteen-year-old Sherri Taylor is an unlikely bunny. Growing up in neighboring East Troy, Sherri plays the organ at the local church and has never felt comfortable in her own skin. But when her parents die in quick succession, she discovers she's actually the perfect girl for the job: pretty, yes, but also broke, wholesome, and painfully naive. In the winter of 1981, in a costume two sizes too small, her toes pinched by stilettos, Sherri joins the daughters of dairy farmers and factory workers for weekly weigh-ins and demanding but high-paying work. Living in the "Bunny Hutch" Playboys version of a college dorm Sherri gets her education in the joys of sisterhood, the thrill of financial independence, the magic of first love, and the heady effects of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. But as spring gives way to summer, Sherri finds herself caught in a romantic triangle -- and the tragedy that ensues will haunt her for the next forty years. From the Midwestern prairie to the California desert, from Wisconsin lakes to the Pacific Ocean, this is a story of what happens when small town life is sprinkled with stardust, and what we lose and gain when we leave home

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