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“[A] sweet, funny story . . . as good as Patty Jane’s House of Curl.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

Megastar of stage, screen, and television, Geneva Jordan now has a command performancein Minnesota, where she agrees to look after her thirteen-year-old nephew, a boywith Down’s syndrome, while his parents take a long-overdue vacation. Though Genevaand her sister, Ann, are as different as night and day (“I being night, of course,dark and dramatic”), Geneva remembers she had a family before she had a star on herdoor. But so accustomed is she to playing the lead, finding herself a supportingactress in someone else’s life is strange and unexplored territory. Then the discoveryof an old scrapbook that she and her sister created long ago starts her thinkingof things beyond fame. For The Great Mysterious is a collection of thoughts and feelingsdedicated to answering life’s big questions—far outside the spotlight’s glow. . ..