The Amendment

¿When Lavinia Dugan Starkhurst¿s wealthy, older husband is struck dead by lightning while playing golf, the former manufactured-home saleswoman and mother of five sets out west from upstate New York on a journey of liberation and discovery. She leaves behind her loving but inept ex-husband, her brood of floundering adult children, a close friend on the brink of divorce, a suitor relentlessly determined to be her next spouse and a hard-to-please housekeeper, all of whom, in one way or another, view her trip as a fool¿s errand. If Rabbit Run was John Updike¿s answer to Kerouac¿s On the Road, then The Amendment is the pitch-perfect contemporary response to Rabbit Run: a nuanced, witty and insightful exploration of the fetters of family and community that prove impossible to escape. Anne Leigh Parrish is a smart, savvy writer with a gift for exploring landscapes of both geography and emotion. Once again, she has produced a work of considerable charm and poignancy.¿¿Jacob M. Appel, author of Millard Salter¿s Last Day.

• | Author: Anne Leigh Parrish
• | Publisher: Unsolicited Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 26, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 356 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1947021095
• | ISBN-13: 9781947021099