In the coming days and weeks, my plan is to deposit Miss L's Travails here, chapter by chapter. I may or may not complete this task.
This contemporary novel with
dystopian elements shifts between two focal points in time: 2016 and 1997.
Gloria Lewis, an unassuming retired school teacher is the protagonist.
When her 2016 story begins,
Gloria is living life on the edge, for citizens over the age of 65 (and the
unemployed) are being targeted for special programs by the government. She
believes it is safer to move into a senior citizens residence, and she says
goodbye to her one remaining friend—a young handyman named Ralph.
She moves into Serenity
Lodge with a certain degree of dread, but is pleasantly surprised to connect
with a few sympathetic characters there: a dapper old man (Saul Acker), two
large and vibrant women, Rose Gold and Ruth Margolis and a young and
gender-shifting employee, Ballerina Girl/Sam. She is less impressed by the
manager, Ms. Julie Dowd, who is strangely hostile and suffers from a
disfiguring skin disease.
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