Dorothea Benton
Frank is one of America's most insightful writers weaving highly
addictive tales of the conundrums of life with hilarity and
heat. Now,
in The Land of Mango Sunsets, Frank gives us one woman's
journey toward a hard-won truth—life isn't always what it
appears to
be, and the sooner you realize that pride won't keep you
warm at night,
the happier you will be. Oh, and one other thing—a truly
joyous life
comes with a generous heart.
Meet Miriam Elizabeth
Swanson,
in a full-blown snit, buoyed by a fabulous cast who run the
gamut from
insufferable to wonderful. First is the arrival of Liz
Harper, Miriam's
tenant from Birmingham, who sets a new cycle in motion. Then
her other
tenant, Kevin, stalwart companion with more style than Cary
Grant,
shakes Miriam out of her fog to see which battles are worth
the fight.
Next, her estranged son announces he's marrying a Jamaican
woman. And
what about her ex-husband, Charles, and that sordid lingerie
model of
his? Well, Harry, her African Gray parrot, has plenty of
opinions.
Finally, you'll laugh and cry when she meets a man named
Harrison who
changes her into a gal named Mellie.
Miriam spins
out from the revolving door of her postured life as a
Manhattan quasi-socialite while she thirsts, no, starves
for recognition. How did she become what she hates the most,
and what
does she endure to realize it? And where are the answers? It
takes a
few spins, dips, and one spectacular fall until Miriam gets
her head on
straight. Then in a whoosh she's off to the enchanted and
mysterious
land of Sullivans Island, deep in the Lowcountry of South
Carolina.
Told straight from the heart in Frank's
vivid, highly entertaining style, The Land of Mango
Sunsets just might be her finest work to date. If you
decide to read this book, don't make plans to do anything
else for a while.
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