Fling!

By Lily Iona MacKenzie

Book Overview

Is it possible to come of age at 60 or 90? Is it ever too late to fulfill your dreams?When ninety-year-old Bubbles receives a letter from Mexico City asking her to pick up her mother's ashes, lost there seventy years earlier and only now surfacing, she hatches a plan. A woman with a mission, Bubbles convinces her hippie daughter Feather to accompany her on the quest. Both women have recently shed husbands and have a secondary agenda: they'd like a little action. And they get it.Alternating narratives weave together Feather and Bubbles' odyssey. The two women head south from Canada to Mexico where Bubbles' long-dead mother, grandmother, and grandfather turn up, enlivening the narrative with their hilarious antics.In Mexico, where reality and magic co-exist, Feather gets a new sense of her mother, and Bubbles' quest for her mother's ashes-and a new man-increases her zest for life. Unlike most women her age, fun-loving Bubbles takes risks, believing she's immortal. She doesn't hold back in any way, eating heartily and lusting after strangers, exulting in her youthful spirit.Has Bubbles discovered a fountain of youth that everyone can drink from?Praise for Fling Fling is both hilarious and touching. Every page is a surprise, and the characters I especially loved Bubbles, one of the most endearing mothers in recent fiction. A scintillating read. Lewis Buzbee, award-winning author of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop and faculty at University of San Francisco MFA program

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1942428200
• ISBN13: 9781942428206
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Pen-L Publishing
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"