ASIN: B00QW0AZUW
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 291
Merry June Pigg is celebrating her seventieth birthday by ditching her sensible shoes, putting on her pumps, changing her name—and running away from home. Since she retired from teaching, Merry June has dreamed of being a contestant on a popular television game show. Her audition video has been accepted and she’s ready to embark on the journey of her life. Certain her husband of fifty years wouldn’t understand, she leaves him a note, a freezer full of home cooked meals and enough new underwear to see him through her absence. Her cross-country journey seems jinxed from the start when she loses her money and her plane ticket. Ready to turn back, Merry June meets a young prostitute who convinces her that this is the universe’s way of testing her and she must go on. Back on course, she encounters a string of wonderful, weird and sometimes-scary characters that change the way she sees the ...
