Claiming Normalcy
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Claiming Normalcy
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Narrated by:
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Lara Cleveland Torgesen
About this listen
Thirty-nine-year-old social recluse Clara O'Connell has been caught in a comfortable rut with her daily routines - cleaning, TV watching, recipe searching, and keeping tabs on the neighbors from behind her binoculars - since she first moved to her neighborhood 14 years ago. But her world abruptly topples when a giant oak tree at her property line crashes into the next-door home, killing a neighbor she has monitored for years and spawning an unsettling obsessive thought: Clara might be responsible for the tragedy.
The burden of that guilt launches Clara into action to make things right again for the family she has wronged, if only to get them back to their regular routines. Now she must face some of her greatest fears and defy the invisible “rule enforcers” who control her life. She finds herself roped into teaching cooking lessons, training for a marathon, and needing to interact with the hunky neighbor whose tanned, muscular legs inspire very un-Catholic-like thoughts. Ultimately, Clara must rediscover the simple joys of human interaction and relationships - and learn how to come to the rescue of the “normal” people all around her who need rescuing.
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