Undeclared

by Sherry Mann

Landon Grey wakes up one morning, a twenty-two college dropout with a two year old kid and the theme from Sesame Street playing in his head. Even without a plan for his future, he's sure this isn't it. Only problem? This is it. His wife just died in a car accident, her high school sweetheart dead in the passenger seat beside her. And his pudgy, Elmo loving, juice guzzling daughter is tugging at his pajamas as he hides under the covers, willing his life to be something else. Anything else. He looks to his wife for help, only to remember they've left her at the funeral home. While his mother threatens to suffocate him with a mixture of concern and enthusiastic hugs and his disappointed in-laws make demands on his time for the next sixteen years, an unexpected encounter with a support group full of women old enough to be his grandmothers propels a reluctant Landon on a different path. With the help of the girl who claims to be a support group junkie, Landon finds the courage to stand up and make the decisions he's avoided his whole life. Undeclared forces a feckless hero to leap over a new set of hurdles on his way to becoming the father and man he's meant to be.

282 pages, Paperback

Published August 11, 2012