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Coronation Street reference!

Oh Ethel, you crack me up, lady.

Ethel spinoff please?

I’ve been ragging on this book but the rapport between Marty and his mother-in-law is comically exquisite. It seems real but the dialogue crackles like ice melting on a frozen lake on the first warm day of spring. There’s a scene where the family eats a simple Italian supper at home that had me howling. A+

Okay now they are referring to Ford as a British car? Is there anything more glaringly American than Henry Ford’s company? What is even happening

Florida doesn’t have mountains but okay. Closest we got is Torreya, but even that is nothing compared to the foothills of Blue Ridge starting around Pine Mountain/Warm Springs, Georgia. I dunno, maybe he was thinking of the Florida Mountains in New Mexico.