The Tall Pine Polka by Lorna Landvik

I'm on to the above. I started this novel on Friday and am nearly half way through it...and I love it. I love Lorna Landvik...she's a great, funny, laugh out loud writer and I imagine I would love any one of her books. This one is about the inhabitants of a small town in northern Minnesota called Tall Pines. At the center of the town is the diner called Cup O'Delight - run by a rich and robust woman, newly escaped from an abusive marriage. This diner is also where most of the "action" occurs in the novel, mainly surrounding the introverted main character Fenny. She's a 22-year old, newly orphaned young lady, trying to find where her place is in life (without her overzealous and extroverted parents). She has recently been cast in a Hollywood film - having been stumbled upon by the screen writer as he scopes out towns to film the movie. She's inexperienced and naive and a hilarious change of scenery to the uptight and egotistical trappings that come with the "business". I haven't finished reading this book but I already recommend it highly. You will laugh out loud at the things people say and do. (Note: Just remember the quote, "I think I just pooped in my pants!")

Update:  Okay, so I finished The Tall Pine Polka by Lorna Landvik and...wait for it...I LOVED IT!!! I love Lorna Landvik. She's such a funny writer and her characters...well, it's almost like I had met all of them before and all of their faces are stuck in my mind. They are all well-developed and personable. Real and likable and I just wish I lived in the place (Tall Pines) so I could go to the Cup O'Delight Cafe and have a cup of O'delight and hang with my "friends". That takes a special writer who can make you feel like that. Read it...or if you can't find this particular novel, find another by Landvik and read that one...you probably won't be disappointed.