Wanda Jo Ashton is starting over at 40. That is if she survives the cross country trip, family feuds, computer phobias and homebrewing explosions along the way.
On her fortieth birthday housewife Wanda Jo Ashotn is expecting her husband's statndard gift of an E and E from T---that being Elegant and Expensive from Tiffany's. However, what she gets is the news that her fomrerly successful, dependable, corporate attorney husband is leaving her to pursue the rich life of a kept man. Left with nothing, she has no choice but to escape the San Francisco area, with her sixteen year old daughter in tow and head for the mountains of West Virginai and the quirky family she left behind twenty years ago. Here Wanda Jo must carve out a future, complete with career and home in the midst of family feuds, computer phobias and the occasional homebrewing explosion before she finally figures out that ending up is just a place to start.
The deep-dive literary meditations presented as stories, poems, and essays in The American Poet Who Went Home Again, A Mosaic of My Soul at Work, have captivated and inspired readers ever since its first paperback publication in 2008.
Married ten years, and more in love than ever, Robert and Marcie have everything to live for. But a terrible secret is breaking Robert's heart: he knows that Marcie is about to die...
South Baltimore serves as the backdrop for this gripping story of three brothers leading very different lives but joined forever by the secrets of a painful family past.
