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The Mother Road

The Mother Road, April 2012
by Jennifer Allee

Abingdon Press
Featuring: Natalie; Lindsay
224 pages
ISBN: 1426713126
EAN: 9781426713125
Kindle: B007EFHQHE
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"An Ultimate Road Trip of No Return"

Fresh Fiction Review

The Mother Road
Jennifer Allee

Reviewed by Kathyrn Little
Posted March 11, 2012

Inspirational | Women's Fiction Contemporary

Natalie's life is not going as planned. Although she is a marriage coach, her own marriage is failing. Her father has some uncertain news for her and her sister is unexpectedly pregnant...by a man who is a bit of a stalker. When Natalie decides to take off with Lindsay on a road trip, the reader will have a hard time blaming her. Natalie is overwhelmed by all of the recent changes in her life, especially the negative ones. What Natalie does not consider is the psychotic nature of Lindsay's baby daddy

Natalie is meant to be the calmer, stabler character while Lindsay is more impetuous and impulsive, when their situations and reactions reverse at times in the story, the reader will laugh. It is interesting watching one woman handle so much. The reader will feel bad for Natalie and easily connect to her. Lindsay is a little more scattered and thus harder to connect to; however, the reader will feel closer to her further into the story.

The events range from serious to scary to comical. The reader will fly through THE MOTHER ROAD, coming across one events after another that will fill gaps from the sisters' past in and provide clues to the potential ending. The reader will experience the road trip with the sisters and everything the trip entails. If one is looking for a new author with fresh ideas, add THE MOTHER ROAD to your list.

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SUMMARY

Natalie Marino has made a career writing about happily-ever-afters, making her own life an open book in order to help others. She never expected her husband, to come home one day and demand a divorce so he can be with his pregnant mistress. To Natalie, who's struggled with infertility, it's the worst betrayal imaginable. She's still dealing with the shock when her father calls, delivering another blow: Her mother's Alzheimer's has progressed. He wants Natalie and her sister to come home while she can still recognize them. Desperate for a change of scenery, Natalie decides a road trip is in order, even if her estranged sister isn't the most obvious travelling companion. She and Lindsay will take Route 66 – the mother road – from Santa Monica, California, to their childhood home in Illinois. But when she picks up her sister, she's in for another shock: Lindsay is pregnant. In a road trip that's one part Lucy and Ethel, one part Thelma and Louise, the two sisters trade snarky barbs, visit quirky tourists spots, and dodge Ben, Lindsay's ex-boyfriend turned stalker. Will their trip down the mother road bring the two sisters closer together, or turn out to be the biggest wrong turn yet?


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