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Lemon Custard
A woman stands on a windmill tower in Kansas, ready to jump. The woman is married, two kids. The farm is driving her crazy. She can escape by jumping or she can escape to the city. Olive needs to say goodbye to the kids. Saying goodbye, she changes her mind. She drops the kids with grandparents, steals her husband’s car, and heads for Wichita.
Lemon Custard is a story about a woman escaping a cage to start over.
Her cage is a farm, a husband, kids, chores, dirt, boredom.
Her journey goes from innocence (she’s known only her husband) to experience (sex with three men, including a rapist who’s married to a friend) to rebirth: free from the farm, Olive controls her own destiny.
Three women guide Olive on her journey from farm girl to city woman:
Janey, a waitress shows her the sexy, seamy side of night life.
Eileen, a transgendered former basketball player teaches Olive how to dress.
Rose, a psychiatrist opens Olive’s dreams to read her hopes for a new start. Olive is America migrating from the country to the city. Olive is America re-inventing itself. Olive discovers the hard truth—the American dream doesn’t end in happy ever after, it ends in loss, rebuilding, starting over with a new dream.
Lemon Custard is a story about a woman escaping a cage to start over.
Her cage is a farm, a husband, kids, chores, dirt, boredom.
Her journey goes from innocence (she’s known only her husband) to experience (sex with three men, including a rapist who’s married to a friend) to rebirth: free from the farm, Olive controls her own destiny.
Three women guide Olive on her journey from farm girl to city woman:
Janey, a waitress shows her the sexy, seamy side of night life.
Eileen, a transgendered former basketball player teaches Olive how to dress.
Rose, a psychiatrist opens Olive’s dreams to read her hopes for a new start. Olive is America migrating from the country to the city. Olive is America re-inventing itself. Olive discovers the hard truth—the American dream doesn’t end in happy ever after, it ends in loss, rebuilding, starting over with a new dream.
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First published January 1, 2011
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Jack Remick
48 books43 followersNovelist, poet.
Author of--
Valley Boy, Second Edition
No Century for Apologies: Short listed for the Hoffer Grand Prize 2023
Citadel, the novel
Blood
The California Quartet:
The Deification--Book One
Valley Boy--Book Two (first Edition)
The Book of Changes--Book Three
Trio of Lost Souls--Book Four
Gabriela and The Widow (Winner "Best Women's Fiction" Orangeberry Virtual Book Expo; Montaigne Medal Finalist; Book of the Year Award Finalist)
co-author of The Weekend Novelist Writes a Mystery (with Robert J. Ray)
Satori-poems by Jack Remick
Doubles in a Game of Chance--a novel about a bureaucratic nightmare and a lost protagonist on a thankless quest.
Man Alone--The Dark Book
Songs of Sadness Joy and Despair for the Anthropocene--a pen in one hand, a razor in the other (Long poems and Josie Delgado)
Author of--
Valley Boy, Second Edition
No Century for Apologies: Short listed for the Hoffer Grand Prize 2023
Citadel, the novel
Blood
The California Quartet:
The Deification--Book One
Valley Boy--Book Two (first Edition)
The Book of Changes--Book Three
Trio of Lost Souls--Book Four
Gabriela and The Widow (Winner "Best Women's Fiction" Orangeberry Virtual Book Expo; Montaigne Medal Finalist; Book of the Year Award Finalist)
co-author of The Weekend Novelist Writes a Mystery (with Robert J. Ray)
Satori-poems by Jack Remick
Doubles in a Game of Chance--a novel about a bureaucratic nightmare and a lost protagonist on a thankless quest.
Man Alone--The Dark Book
Songs of Sadness Joy and Despair for the Anthropocene--a pen in one hand, a razor in the other (Long poems and Josie Delgado)
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