The Middle Of Somewhere
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Title: THE MIDDLE OF SOMEWHERE
Author: Clifford Henderson
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-60282-047-0
ISBN-10: 1-60282-04703
Rated: 4 Stars
Genre: Romance-Mystery
What happens when a citified dyke from San Francisco decides to cross the Texas Panhandle in the middle of summer with a dead cell phone and expired credit card? In a car old enough to be her mother, no less?
Disaster hits, that’s what.
After a nasty break-up from her umpteenth loser girlfriend, Eadie Pratt decides she’s going to take off on a cross-country trip in her ’66 T-Bird, towing a piece-of-shit travel trailer. One broken U-joint later she finds herself stuck seemingly in the middle-of-nowhere, Texas. Yep, that would be Baptist Texas, complete with hallelujahs! and amens.
Things definitely get worse when she finds the only source of help coming arrives in the form of the local church congregation. What’s a poor pierced and tattooed San Francisco lesbian to do? She doesn’t have much choice in the matter. Well, none, to be frank.
She finds herself taken under the hefty wings of two old spinster sisters who live side by side, each in their own trailer. With Eadie’s own little travel egg on wheels pulled up right alongside theirs, she starts to fear that she’ll never be able to leave the pondunk town she finds herself trapped in. Will she ever make it out alive, much less get to the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival before it ends?
I read this book as the required reading for a book club. What a great pick it was! Our upcoming meeting to discuss it is sure to rock-n-roll. What can I say? I loved this book. I was laughing from the first paragraph all the way to the end, and in the meantime fell in love with all the characters.
Although this is Henderson’s first published novel her writing is replete with complex characters and a full-bodied plot, sort of like a well-rounded Merlot. I can’t help but give this book a hearty two-thumbs up review and hope that you’ll read it. I know you’ll enjoy it just as much as I did!
REVIEWED BY JARRON ENNIS
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