A sweet, by-the-numbers romance with a substantial dose of corny humor. Painful manure episodes aside, Heasley also offers plenty of Texas boys, football parties, and a rodeo as city girl turns country girl and learns some lessons about family and good old-fashioned fun. This premise results in a predictable story, as Heasley dishes out one smalltown clich after another in an effort to deliver some tension. The moral of Heasley's story is one familiar to any number of romantic comedies on page and on screen: namely, that smalltown life is every bit as rewarding as the bustle of the city if given half a chance. 43 44 45 In popular culture edit The restaurant and its pancakes are mentioned in the 2011 book Where I Belong, by Gwendolyn Heasley. Corrinne is horrified to trade her ritzy, snobby, Gossip Girl style life for the slow-paced, carbohydrate-rich world of her grandparents. It is located at 2893 Broadway between 112th and 113th Streets in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, and has an open kitchen and a bi-level dining room. Corrinne's father loses his job and moves to Dubai to find work, leaving her mother behind to sell their Manhattan apartment while 16-year-old Corrinne and her younger brother, Tripp, head to Broken Spoke, Tex., her mother's long (and best) forgotten hometown. The recession hits Corrinne Corcoran's wealthy family hard in Heasley's first novel.
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