Summary:
Treez
McDuffy is a single woman who’s recently retired from a forty-year-long-lifeless job. She’s now faced
with facing herself. The wounds from
her childhood reopen, having never
really healed. They’re responsible for
her unwillingness and inability to have formed any type of meaningful
relationship. She is alone without any
sense of purpose or belonging and consoles herself with endless cigarettes,
liter-boxes of Merlot and micro-waved frozen dinners.
Something
happens that ignites a transformation.
One morning she hears the sound of Canada geese flying over her
apartment on their way home. They’re
calling her to join them. She rushes out
onto her balcony and is overwhelmed by the momentous display of this huge flock
of geese flying overhead. It stirs
something inside her which has lain dormant for years – hope to change her
life. But to change, she has to change
everything.
She
terminates the lease on her the rent-controlled apartment she’s had for thirty
years, cashes in her retirement savings,
buys a new car, adopts a dog, aptly named, Guido, from the local pound
and sets out to travel the Trans Canada Highway on a tentatively planned
journey to the Badlands of South Dakota.
On
day of her departure, she suffers an extreme anxiety attack after travelling
only a few blocks from her old apartment.
Somehow the realization of what she’s done has remained safe in her
imagination but now it’s reality. She fears
she’s made a very reckless and foolish decision but it’s too late to turn back.
What
starts off as a trip to the Badlands veers dramatically off course as she
encounters people and events, both natural and supernatural that steer her in a
whole new direction. She is challenged in ways she has never experienced
before. She is on an odyssey of rebirth
and self-discovery.
Author Bio and Links:
Kathleen
Martin is a Gemini-nominated writer for film, novelist and playwright. Her first book “Penny Maybe” was published in
Canada and in Germany. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona
with her husband and a little herd of little dogs.
Tour
Schedule:
11/26:
FS Meurinne Book Enticer
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12/09: R.E.
Hargrave --
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