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Hi this is Betsy from Ottos. Do you like variety in your fiction? Something that takes a fresh look at ordinary people? Etta and Otto and Russell and James by first time author, Emma Hooper, is the story of ordinary people told in an extraordinary way. Etta is an 83 year old woman who has never seen the ocean so she starts walking east almost 2000 miles across Canada to the Atlantic. She leaves a note for her husband, Otto, “Don’t worry…I’ll try to remember to come back.” As she walks, she remembers growing up, teaching as a young woman, waiting while Otto serves in “the war to end all wars,” marrying Otto after he comes home, enduring the dust bowl…but like her memories, the story jumps around to past to present and back again—almost like the thoughts of those with Alzheimers. Russell and James share in this ordinary life too. Etta and Otto and Russell and James—you’ll find it at Otto’s, a booklover’s paradise in the heart of downtown Williamsport.