Two Over Easy All Day Long

<p>When the president of a toy company guilty of a tragic negligence is sentenced to a year of minimum-wage work in an Oregon diner he loses his familiar Manhattan privileges. But Giles Gibson now Tony gradually learns to appreciate the tangles and complexities of ordinary lives and those who somehow manage to keep on going with compassion and wit. The diner's (secretly kindhearted) boss has other secrets too as does the curmudgeonly cook. (He'd gone AWOL from Vietnam half a century earlier.) Much of the novel is set in Sunnyside Up the diner where staff and customers mingle. There's a drug ring just outside town headed by the ex-sheriff a lavender farm whose workers tend to be undocumented a gay couple who aren't quite in or out of the closet.... Each character is an individual created uniquely by Shari Lane's colors textures language subtle symbols and deep sense of balance.</p><p></p><p><em>Two Over Easy All Day Long </em>won Literary Titan's Silver Award in 2024 and a Notable Book award from Shelf Unbound. </p>