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I wasnt looking for Marilyn Monroe when I bumped into her, even though I knew she was in town filming River of No Return

So begins In A Town Called Paradox set in Utah, in the 1950s, when the Big Five Hollywood studios were lured to that state by the fiery red-rock scenery that formed the perfect backdrop to the blockbuster movies they planned to film.

Corin Dunbar banished to live with her aunt Jessie, an obsessively religious spinster who runs a failing cattle ranch near Paradox hates her new life, until the arrival of Hollywood turns the rural backwater into a playground for glamorous stars. Seduced by the glitz of the movies, Corin finds work with the studios, but after a brush with the casting couch, channels her growing ambition into saving the ranch-the jewel of the Dunbar family for three generations.

When Corin falls for Ark Stevenson a charismatic stranger who was raised by missionaries in the Amazon jungle (then drawn to Paradox by his fascination with the Westerns that are filmed there) her future seems bright. Thats not the outlook facing Yiska Begay, a Navajo Indian and convicted murderer whos on the run near Paradox. These different lives unexpectedly collide when a tragic accident wrecks Corins dreams and forces her to make an agonizing decision that changes the course of her life forever.

Told mainly by Corin-now a middle-aged woman still haunted by this watershed moment-In A Town Called Paradox is a compelling read that redefines the meaning of love as it asks the question: If each of us has a life story, then who decides how it unfolds and how it should end?

Author: Miriam Murcutt, Richard Starks
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Prestwicke Publishing
Published: 10/19/2020
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780974694603
Language: English

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