Sandra Hutchison
ASIN: B00NZDOYP6
Publisher: Sheer Hubris Press (December 9, 2014)
Pages: 416
A teenage girl and a widowed physics professor risk scandal and worse when they try to help each other survive unexpected losses.It's 1977 in a small New England town. Physics professor David Asken doesn't know how he survived the plane crash that killed his wife and daughter, but he figures he must have run for it. Now he's quietly planning to kill himself. Sixteen-year-old neighbor Molly Carmichael, who used to be the babysitter, isn't exactly eager to keep house for him while he recuperates. She's busy trying to cope with her flamboyant artist mother's highly sexual art and highly sexual lifestyle, her own adolescent stirrings, and her own place in the community. But that's all nothing to the dangers she'll face after a conflict with her best friend's father.Will the unexpectedly tender connection that grows between David and Molly help them survive their individual traumas, or make ...