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Linger
A new single mom's struggles to build a life prompt five women fighting battles of their own to bond with her and support one another.
Jill Pennyworth is recovering from a kidnapping, a close call with a mobster's gun, and childbirth. Now she is homeless and jobless in a small Michigan town navigating life with a newborn. Her in-laws, Chicago's notorious Parlepianos, have found her and want her back. She is all alone and struggling until her life intertwines with the lives of five women fighting battles of their
Bea, unable to move on after her husband's death, reluctantly wrestles to map out a future for her teen-aged daughter with Down Syndrome;
Mimi, fourteen, innocent and vulnerable, whose body has outgrown her mind, teeters reluctantly at the edge of the nest;
Trudy, suffering the pain, debilitation and loneliness of lung cancer, stares with regret at the approaching end of her life;
Francesca, a wealthy Chicago matron, defies her controlling husband for the first time to protect her daughter-in-law and granddaughter;
And Kay, victim of a self-centered empty life, wallows in self-pity, attempting to quench the unbearable grief of losing her daughter and gaining no comfort from her efforts.
The six reach into one another's lives and in the end form a solid sustaining sisterhood.
Linger is the sequel to What Julia Wrote.
Jill Pennyworth is recovering from a kidnapping, a close call with a mobster's gun, and childbirth. Now she is homeless and jobless in a small Michigan town navigating life with a newborn. Her in-laws, Chicago's notorious Parlepianos, have found her and want her back. She is all alone and struggling until her life intertwines with the lives of five women fighting battles of their
Bea, unable to move on after her husband's death, reluctantly wrestles to map out a future for her teen-aged daughter with Down Syndrome;
Mimi, fourteen, innocent and vulnerable, whose body has outgrown her mind, teeters reluctantly at the edge of the nest;
Trudy, suffering the pain, debilitation and loneliness of lung cancer, stares with regret at the approaching end of her life;
Francesca, a wealthy Chicago matron, defies her controlling husband for the first time to protect her daughter-in-law and granddaughter;
And Kay, victim of a self-centered empty life, wallows in self-pity, attempting to quench the unbearable grief of losing her daughter and gaining no comfort from her efforts.
The six reach into one another's lives and in the end form a solid sustaining sisterhood.
Linger is the sequel to What Julia Wrote.
357 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 5, 2021
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