Alma Lolloon

By Joe Linker

"Experience, though noon auctoritee / Were in this world, is right ynogh for me / To speke of wo that is in marriage..." (from Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale")

Alma Lolloon is a career part-time waitress, a five-time widow, and an aspiring novelist with a "work-in-progress." Saturday mornings, Alma meets with the "knitting ladies" at local coffee shops to read her latest chapters. What follows is a sharp-witted, metafictional journey through the red dust of memory, marriage, and the struggle to find one's own voice.

"Alma Lolloon" is a satirical deconstruction of the literary world, seen through the eyes of a woman who knows about people from behind a diner counter. As Alma recounts her experience with her five husbands, from a soldier drafted to Vietnam to a corporate executive, she must contend with the biting critiques of her own audience, including the pedantic Hattie, who demands a "traditional plot" where Alma only offers raw experience.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978410964
• ISBN13: 9781978410961
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"