Clock Dance, by Anne Tyler:
Daughter of a steadfast, loving father and mercurial mother, eleven-year-old Willa Drake wants to be a steadying influence on a large, joyous family when she grows up. Fifty years later she finds herself a remarried widow with two grown sons when a distress call from a stranger brings her across country to Baltimore where she settles in to take care of a young woman who has been shot in the leg and her eleven-year-old child. Here, in literary novel CLOCK DANCE, Willa learns the true meaning of family as she becomes a beloved “grandmother” in a friendly, raucous neighborhood.
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NOTE: The above is a sample pitch, categorized by type of fiction, that I wrote for instructional purposes only. This “pitch” was written after the book was published and was never used by the author or anyone else to actually pitch a book.
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