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"Smart and Witty! Finally, a grown up book about women who aren't kids."
- The Three Tomatoes
In her debut novel, Diane Meier has crafted a beautfully written novel of style and substance, romance and awakenings.
A world of possibilities opens up for Joy Harkness when she sets out on a journey that’s going to show her the importance of friendship, love, and what makes a house a home
Almost 50, Joy Harkness had built a university career and a safe life in New York, protected and insulated from the intrusions and involvements of other people. When offered a position at Amherst College, she impulsively leaves the city, and along with generations of material belongings, she packs her equally heavy emotional baggage. A tumbledown Victorian house, a much younger handyman who becomes her lover, and a first ever connection to the co-workers who become friends and friendships that deepen, finally awaken a sleeping Joy.
The book is filled with wonderful quirky characters, including the campus’s single, middle-aged men, known as “the Coyotes,” who view Joy as the new prey.
Among the legitimate dramas of her close-knit community, Joy learns that the key to the affection of family and friends is being worthy of it, and most important, that second chances are waiting to be discovered within us all.
A wonderful story that shows style and substance can and should live in harmony, and that you're never to old to "come of age."
Listen in to our interview with author Diane Meier
