Navigating the complexities of middle age, Nancy Nau Sullivan faces the daunting task of caring for two children while managing her father's declining health and coping with her mother's death. Amidst a contentious divorce and sibling rivalries, tensions escalate when her siblings accuse her of "kidnapping" their father. As they seek refuge in Florida during Hurricane Josephine, Sullivan shares her journey through chaos, providing a humorous and relatable perspective on the challenges of family dynamics and unexpected life changes.
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Nancy Nau Sullivan esplora temi che spingono i confini dell'esperienza umana, dalla resilienza personale alle tensioni all'interno delle strutture penitenziarie. Il suo stile di scrittura, informato dal suo ampio background come giornalista ed educatrice in contesti svantaggiati, offre acuti spunti sui personaggi che affrontano le avversità. Attraverso le sue narrazioni, Sullivan approfondisce la forza della resistenza e le complessità della connessione umana, ambientando spesso le sue storie vicino all'acqua, offrendo ai lettori un'esperienza profondamente risonante.



Blanche "Bang" Murninghan, a part-time journalist struggling with writer's block, enjoys her peaceful life on Santa Maria Island until land-grabbing tycoons from Chicago threaten her beachfront cottage. As her idyllic existence is disrupted, she grapples with the chaos that ensues, leading to a whirlwind of unexpected challenges and revelations.
Blanche "Bang" Murningham was perfectly content sitting on the dock of the Peel 'N Eat Pier on Santa Maria Island, sipping an excellent draft and wiggling her fishing pole after an exclusive sheepshead. Perfectly content, that is until Jean McMahon appears at her side and forever disrupts Blanche's peaceful idyll with ghosts of the past. Blanche's amateur sleuthing skills have become local legend, and Jean needs her help. It's no a simple favor Jean asks--will Blanche go to Vietnam with her and look for Jean's mother? Blanche feels an old wound rip open in her heart. Her father was killed in Vietnam, and she's never gotten much history from her beloved grandmother and mother on the subject. She realizes she and Jean share a powerful bond--they both want the truth. --from page [4] of cover