Going to La Paz

Lita Cabshaw is captivated from the moment she meets Grayson Spangler Todhunter, who looks like a prince and is the life of the party. The year is 1946, and Lita and “Hunt” meet in the small town of Coral Beach, south of Los Angeles. When Hunt tells Lita he is leaving the next day to paddleboard from California to La Paz, Mexico, Lita’s hopes are dashed . . . until Hunt jokingly asks if she’d like to come along.

Going to La Paz is the beautifully wrought story of one woman’s journey from girlhood to womanhood. With vibrant prose and sharp wit, Bonnie Louise Barrett (and her husband, L. Nathaniel Wolfe, who completed the novel after his wife’s death) brings to life Lita’s struggle to be a perfect wife while finding her own identity.