Author of Aldrich, MO Pop. 199

"This novel was a true pleasure to read - loving and humorous, quick, and memorable. Ann Magaha captures a place and a time that are so very real they seem like personal memories. The young protagonist Janet has the wit and strength we wish for our children and, luckily, she finds steady guidance in a brief period that will last her a lifetime. What I admire, most, perhaps, is that people's failings are simply that, only a part of them, and forgivable, The sense of family - how one draws it in - is heartening." 

- R.M. Kinder, A Common Person and Other Stories 

"I just this morning opened your manuscript and read it all the way through. It's absolutely brilliant."

- Steve Glassman, editor of Edgar Award nominee, Crime Fiction

"Enter Janet's world where learning about life is learning about the people who are in it and sometimes they abandon us and sometimes we abandon them. But what always remains is her special place. We all should have such a place. Aldrich, MO Pop. 199 gives us hers."

-Randy Attwood, Spill