It Only Takes an Instant for Love to Strike
Tragedy hits the Allenhouse family on a hot summer night in Ohio when a mother of four vanished. Eight-year-old Vada virtually grew up overnight and raised her three younger sisters while her father lost himself in his medical practice in the basement of their home.
Now, Vada is a grown woman, still making her home with her father and sisters. Her days are spent serving as an errand girl for Cleveland’s fledgling amateur orchestra; her evenings with Garrison Walker, her devoted, if passionless, beau.
Dizzying change occurs the day the Brooklyn Bridegrooms come to town to play the Cleveland Spiders and a line drive wallops the head of a spectator. The fan is whisked to the Allenhouse parlor, and questions swirl about the anonymous, unconscious man.
Suddenly, the subdued house is filled with visitors, from a flirtatious, would-be sports writer to the Bridegrooms’ handsome star hitter to the guilt-ridden ballplayer who should have caught the stray shot. The medical case brings Dr. Allenhouse a frustration and helplessness he hasn’t felt since his wife’s disappearance. Vada’s sisters are giddy at the bevy of possible suitors. And Vada’s life is awakened amid the super-charged atmosphere of romantic opportunity.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Summary
The Bridegrooms, as a title, has a double meaning. The one is obvious¬¬what we normally think of when the word is used. The other is not so obvious. In the late 1 800s Brooklyn had a baseball team called the Brooklyn Bridegrooms, and this is the other reference to which the title refers. Yet, it isn't a story about baseball; it is a story of a family of four sisters living with their father, a doctor. Their mother had walked out of their lives when the oldest daughter was just eight and the youngest was a mere baby. Much of the story revolves around how each person in the family has learned, and is yet learning, to deal with this desertion. The baseball Bridegrooms enter the story via an injury to a fan that takes an uncaught line¬drive to the middle of his forehead, putting him into a four¬day comatose state. Father, the doctor, brings the fan, who no one can identify, into the family home to care for him. Along with the injured fan, several of the baseball players keep stopping by to check on him. The male infusion into this otherwise female-dominated household causes a whirlwind of emotional reactions, that all come back to their mother's desertion of them. You can almost feel the brewing storm of hormones! The book is a good read which leaves you pondering much about love.
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