A Calculated Guess

By Susan Ranelle Amari

When Cate Morelle and Cindy Allen meet again at a forty-year college reunion, they unwittingly become part of each other's plan for a last chance start-over, and join a cast of characters equally haunted by the past . . .The psychologist who keeps the memory of his dead wife alive by internal debates over whether she was his savior or nemesis; the artist, whose Happy Dog paintings fall far from his youthful expectations; and the granddaughter, whose likeness to her beautiful but wayward grandmother ensures her place in a generational battle between mothers and daughters.It leads to the death of a woman on an Ohio road and a lingering question: Was the death a random occurrence, or a mere casualty of the past? The answer is as elusive as a reliable memory, or as Cindy Allen would put it, "The past? The truth? They're just what we need or want them to be."Set in a world indelibly marked by the '70s, A Calculated Guess is an ode to the last stop on a strange trip, where memories are edited, hope is losing its grip, and the only thing you can count on is a false assumption.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692683739
• ISBN13: 9780692683736
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Bridgehampton Publishing
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.7" x 5.5"