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Summary: We first met Shannon Olson—our semifictional heroine—in the enormously popular Welcome to My Planet . Now, in Children of God Go Bowling , we find Shannon in her mid-thirties and still besieged by reminders that her life is anything but normal. As everyone around her blossoms in marital bliss and home ownership, Shannon embarks upon a feng shui–inspired campaign to make room for a future, from joining group therapy to accepting blind dates (hey, you never know). With encore performances by Flo (called “one of the great moms of American fiction” by Garrison Keillor), and other indelible characters from Olson’s previous novel, this is another heartbreaking and hilarious read by a young author who is truly going places