Excerpt from Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

Which is how I'd landed on M. M. Banning's welcome mat being chewed out by one of the premiere voices of this or any generation. I pulled myself together before she called the cops and said, "I am the girl Mr. Vargas sent."

She put the phone in her cardigan pocket. "Well then," she said. "If you're done staring at me, I guess you can come inside."

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