She doesn’t even remember buying the cookies, but buying almost anything is key to this story. She hangs up, then realizes she’s absent-mindedly consumed the better part of an entire package of Oreo cookies while on the phone. It begins about midday after a telephone conversation with her son who again laments that she will not move out of the city. The novel takes place on New Year’s Eve day, 1984. No matter our ages, many of us have learned the pleasures of walking even if we all walk for different reasons. She also loves her ex-husband (deceased) and her son. Lillian loves at least two things passionately: New York City and walking. Lillian is an eighty-five-year-old widow living alone with her cat Phoebe in Manhattan in the mid-1980s. Most everyone who has read and commented on Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (written by Kathleen Rooney) uses the word charming at least once. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk inside NYC and her life.
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