Description: Gert Hardcastle is 30-something and unlucky in love. As Crocodile Soup opens, she thinks she has found "The One" -- Eva, who serves coffee in the cafeteria at the museum where Gert works as a curator cataloging Egyptian artifacts. As Gert embarks on her hilarious and poignant pursuit of Eve, she looks back on her eccentric childhood -- the attic haunted by the ghost of a Victorian poet, her strange twin, Frank, with whom she communicates telepathically, her father, George, who vanishes to Africa to salvage the family crocodile farm, and her vain, neglectful mother, Jean. Gert's story is punctuated by terse, intriguing letters from Jean to which she does not respond. Is Gert destined to remain the scaffolding for those around her, or will she find her savior?

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