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    612-822-4611

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Silver Alert

Silver Alert

Smith, Lee

Hardcover

General Fiction

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ISBN10: 1643752413
ISBN13: 9781643752419
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: Apr 18 2023
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Smith's latest is as delicious as a slice of key lime pie - and gone just as fast. ―People

It's very different and it's very special and it's very good! I loved it. --​Dolly Parton

A driving force in literature, Lee Smith returns with a road trip novel, a story full of hope and humor about not going away quietly--at any age.

Herb's charmed life with his dear wife Susan in their Key West house is coming undone. Susan, in her 70s, now needs constant care, and Herb is in denial about his own ailing health. The one bright spot is the arrival of an endlessly optimistic manicurist calling herself Renee. She sings to Susan during manicures, gets her to paint, and brings her a much-needed sense of contentment.

Then Herb and Susan's adult children arrive to stage an intervention with their stubborn, independent father, and as a consequence, Renee's gig with Susan--and her grand plans for her own life--start to unravel as well. Herb isn't ready to let go of all that he has ever had, and it turns out that Renee is not the happy, uncomplicated girl she pretends to be. She is not even Renee; she is really Dee Dee, and she, too, has reasons of her own to hit the road. So Herb suggests one last joy ride in his Porsche with her riding shotgun; and they light out for parts north, setting off a Silver Alert.

As the unlikely friendship between Herb and Dee Dee deepens, we see how as one life is closing down, another opens up. This time that Dee Dee has spent with Susan, this time in Key West, and this time in the Porsche with the elderly Herb reveals to Dee Dee how much more truly lies ahead.

In this buoyant novel, the masterful Smith asks: What life do we deserve? And how do we make it our own? Sometimes, you just have to seize the wheel.

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