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Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon
2007 novel by Garrison Keillor
Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon is a novel by Garrison Keillor, a humorous fictional account of life in the fictitious heartland town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota.
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It was first published in hardcover by Viking Press in September 2007.
Lake Wobegon is one of the habitats of the radio show Prairie Home Companion.
Plot
The novel begins with the death of 81-year-old Evelyn Peterson in her sleep.
Evelyn was a widow who had a reputation for staying positive yet straightforward with the way she lived life in her later years, in direct counter to the negative and passive-aggressive personalities of the Lake Wobegon townsfolk.
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Barbara, Evelyn's daughter, discovers her mother's body the next morning. Barbara is divorced, works as a school lunchlady, and lives a life troubled by her past and complicated by recurring alcoholism. The death is a shock, since Evelyn had been in seemingly-great health in the days prio