Nine Bean Rows

Elizabeth Putnam fifty-nine bookstore owner is surrounded by plants poetry flowers friends. She loves Yeats' poems. She names her house Innisfree and lives alone in her bee-loud glade. Until the day David Greene poet Peace Corps veteran wearing a beret and limping slightly walks into Putnam & Ryan Books. And into her life. Nine Bean Rows is the story of Elizabeth's life lived well and fully. It is a happy life in spite of disappointment and loss. It is also the story of Patrick Callahan to whom she was once married briefly of Richard Adams who loved her enough not to marry her and of David Greene whom she loved but would not marry. In this brilliant and poignant first novel Reese Danley-Kilgo has captured without sentimentality the essence of love that is deeper than most of us ever know. Yet this is not a love story and far from a romance novel. It is a story of life and love of sorrow and joy with an unexpected but satisfying ending.