Only Tim Sent Flowers ~ Revised Edition

by George Kaplan

Overview

Mary Louise, a bookish, redheaded, freckle-faced, eighteen-year-old virgin, who is unaware she has Asperger's Syndrome, dispenses with Tim, her loving but far too serious and conventional high school boyfriend, then thrusts herself, groin first, into the 1960s sexual revolution, pioneering concepts such as friends with benefits and serial monogamy, while earning two college degrees in statistics. Nicknamed Tookie by her doting father, she engages in often humorous escapades with innumerable unsuitable lovers, whom she seduces with her oral virtuosity. But through it all, the one thing she really wants escapes her--a man who will truly love her, despite her faults, and give her a daughter.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160903958
Publisher:	Black Opal Books
Publication date:	08/26/2017
Series:	Tookie , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	275 KB

About the Author

After a career of chasing, and being chased by, spies and assorted thugs across national monuments while being mistaken for Cary Grant, George Kaplan hung up his shoulder holster and used the money to buy a computer to serve as his word processor. Although well versed in writing after-action summaries, Kaplan had no experience with writing fiction, other than his expense reports. Government repercussions about modeling characters after his cohorts and enemies would have been far too risky, so he fabricated a heroine who has qualities he’s seen a few of on each of a number of women he’d rubbed shoulders (and sometimes more) with, during his long career undercover. Kaplan’s first novel, Only Tim Sent Flowers, launches his Tookie series about an undiagnosed Aspie girl who perseveres through numerous unexpected adventures.

Editorial Reviews

I was frankly amazed that Kaplan was able to pen such a realistic, flawed, human, and three dimensional character who is a female, as that kind of depth in female characters is rare in male authors. You can't help but empathize with this poor mixed-up girl, who is really very sweet.

http://www.blackopalbooks.com - Taylor Jones

Only Tim Sent Flowers is a heart-warming, heart-breaking, realistic story of an endearing misfit, struggling to fit in with a world that doesn't understand those of us who deviate from the norm, whether by choice or disease, and doesn't really want to. Kaplan handled the subject with both compassion and sensitivity. Bravo.

http://www.blackopalbooks.com - Regan Murphy