THE INTERNATIONAL PULPWOOD QUEENS AND TIMBER GUY BOOK CLUB
Pause by Sara Stamey First Place, Somerset Award for Women’s Fiction Dear Diary, Shall we pause to take stock? Female (liberated, at least from fraught marriage). Age 52, height 5’5”, weight 120, bone density excellent, minimal cellulite, maximal hot flashes. One and ¾ breasts. Months since sex: 27 Lindsey Friedland, former river-rafting guide and avid outdoorswoman, has hit the worst stretch of water she’s ever faced: divorce from an abuser, breast cancer, menopause symptoms that her friends seem to have paddled serenely by. And she’s lost sight of her dream of becoming an environmental journalist. Lindsey needs to get her spark back. Dear Diary, Disastrous blind dates so far: The walking cologne bottle. The “really want a gal to give me babies” guy. The pushy past-life reintegration facilitator. Will Lindsey make it past the rocky shoals of family 62
