The Blessed Rita by Tommy Wieringa Condition:Used Kirkus says

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and delightfully charming characters

we’re not making that up

Set in the years before Balin’s doomed expedition

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The Blessed Rita by Tommy Wieringa Condition:Used Kirkus saysHe had seen more and more people from the East in recent years. Mostly gypsies, people said. Bulgarians, Romanians you could tell by the plates on the vans and the trailers. The Poles had been around for some time already. Burglaries, thefts. The blessings of the new Europe. Paul Krzen lives with his father in an old farmhouse, not far from the German border. Where once his father took care of him, now he takes care of his father. It has been a long