Enormous Wings: A Novel

ISBN: 1250423775

Author: Frankel, Laurie

Condition: New

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author Laurie Frankel, an exuberant and timely new novelAt seventy-seven, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She didnt choose the Vista View Retirement Community of Austin, Texas-that would be her three grown children-but when she grudgingly moves in, she not only makes new friends, she falls in love. Then the exhaustion, vomiting, and confusion start. She fears its cancer, dementia, a stroke. But a raft of tests later, the news is even more shocking: Shes pregnant.As word gets out, everyone wants a piece of her: the press and paparazzi, activists and medical researchers, belly-rubbers and rubber-neckers all descending on Vista View while Pepper struggles to determine her next move. Soon she has some hard decisions to make-and some shes not allowed to make.Enormous Wings is an urgent novel about female agency and bodily autonomy, morality and mortality. Its about what happens when you dont get to choose anymore. Its about motherhood and family, sex and love and friendship, and how those bedrocks-even so late in the day-can still change, and then change everything.