Laurie Frankel’s newest novel, Enormous Wings, centers on Pepper Mills, age 77. Pepper didn’t choose the Vista View Retirement Community. When she grudgingly moves in, she not only makes new friends, she falls in love. Then the exhaustion, vomiting, and confusion start. She fears it’s cancer, dementia, a stroke, but the news is even more shocking: She’s pregnant. Pepper struggles to determine her next move. Soon she has some hard decisions to make— and some she’s not allowed to make.
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Laurie Frankel’s newest novel, Enormous Wings, centers on Pepper Mills, age 77. Pepper didn’t choose the Vista View Retirement Community. When she grudgingly moves in, she not only makes new friends, she falls in love. Then the exhaustion, vomiting, and confusion start. She fears it’s cancer, dementia, a stroke, but the news is even more shocking: She’s pregnant. Pepper struggles to determine her next move. Soon she has some hard decisions to make— and some she’s not allowed to make.
Laurie Frankel is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of five (going on six) novels. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Poets & Writers, Publisher’s Weekly, People Magazine, Lit Hub, The Sydney Morning Herald, and other publications. She is the recipient of the Washington State Book Award and the Endeavor Award. Her novels have been translated into more than twenty-five languages and been optioned for film and TV. A former college professor, she now writes full-time in Seattle, Washington where she lives with her family and makes good soup.
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