Left Over Agnes

by Guy Gallo

Agnes comes from the lost generation of American those who made homes in the Fifties and were side-swiped by the Seventies. Now, at sixty-five, she wants to know how she came to feel so alone and overlooked sitting in a shopping mall in a suburb of New Orleans.She starts a journal, intertwining tales from past and present, struggling to articulate her hopes and discontentment. Into this introspection comes Bone, her ex-husband, with a shattering he wants an annulment, increasing her sense of being discarded.The act of writing gives Agnes a voice. She battles both Bone and her own demons on the page. And re-discovers her strength and resolve and faith.

293 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 6, 2012