2019 KDP
250 pgs.
Adult CRF
Finished 7/6/19 at camp
Goodreads rating: 4.19 - 175 ratings
My rating: 3
Setting: Driving all around the US; lots of Colorado and Arizona, contemporary
First line/s: "If bad luck really does come in threes, I've finally reached my quota."
My comments: A 61-year-old woman, on her own for the first time in 40 years, tries to figure out what to do with the rest of her life after her husband has purposely "disappeared." Becoming mobile - hitting the road - rediscovering herself - hiking and camping and trying to become more outgoing. She also is a bit klutzy and her comedy of errors - one after another (reminding me of myself!) are really quite comical and fun. The one totally unreal coincidence takes this down a point....
Goodreads synopsis: You're never too old to run away from home
Ellie Dwyer, 61, is convinced bad luck comes in threes, and not just garden-variety, oh-well bad luck. How many people have to flee not one, but two natural disasters? And in between the wildfire and the hurricane, her husband of nearly forty years suddenly up and left her for no reason she could fathom, disappearing from her life without a clue to his whereabouts.
Determined to reinvent her life, Ellie sets out on a journey across the country – her own “great escape.” Along the way to nowhere in particular, she buys a camper, becomes friends with a remarkable older woman, and starts to believe that good luck might also come in threes.
Or does it? That depends on how she defines good luck.
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