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Eighty-six-year-old Mattie Snorgenson has had enough. She’s spent most of her life caring for family and fitting into polite society. Now she is determined to follow her dreams. Inspired by Mattie’s courage, four other senior women join with her to escape the boredom of their retirement home and travel the world together as each one seeks to fulfill the one, secret desire she has always held.
With help from a pierced, tattooed and dreadlocked granddaughter, the five friends journey from Florida to the Emerald Isle, and from Tasmania to the markets of Egypt. When their story goes viral, surfers, hitchhikers, priests and a Crocodile Dundee impersonator pitch in to help the “outrageous grannies.” Even Doctor Phil gets into the act.
The ladies must outsmart relatives who seek to return them to senior living, and con men who see them as easy targets. Also, traveler must face her own frailties and mortality. Finally, forced to choose between the security of home and the danger of continuing their quest, ringleader Mattie is challenged with the most important decision of her life.
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...engaging, heartwarming, outrageously funny.
Priscilla Long, Fire and Stone
A delightful, poignant, later-in-life coming of age story.
Elizabeth Engstrom, author of Benediction Denied
An antic novel of love and death . . . spunky companions will leave you charmed with their wistful stories, and their embrace of friendship and adventure. Required reading for travelers, armchair or otherwise.
Laura Kalpakian, author of Three Strange Angels
In its subtext and in its spine, this novel is about the ultimate act of liberation.
Jack Remick, author of The Trio of Lost Souls
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- PublisherPenchant Press International
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 0972496076
- ISBN 13 9780972496070
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages366
- EditorWinkler Denise C.
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