{"product_id":"9781942428299","title":"Fling!","description":"Is it possible to come of age at 60 or 90? Is it ever too late to fulfill your dreams?\u003cp\u003eWhen ninety-year-old Bubbles receives a letter from Mexico City asking her to pick up her mother's ashes, lost there seventy years earlier and only now surfacing, she hatches a plan. A woman with a mission, Bubbles convinces her hippie daughter Feather to accompany her on the quest. Both women have recently shed husbands and have a secondary agenda: they'd like a little action. And they get it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlternating narratives weave together Feather and Bubbles' odyssey. The two women head south from Canada to Mexico where Bubbles' long-dead mother, grandmother, and grandfather turn up, enlivening the narrative with their hilarious antics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Mexico, where reality and magic co-exist, Feather gets a new sense of her mother, and Bubbles' quest for her mother's ashes-and a new man-increases her zest for life. Unlike most women her age, fun-loving Bubbles takes risks, believing she's immortal. She doesn't hold back in any way, eating heartily and lusting after strangers, exulting in her youthful spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHas Bubbles discovered a fountain of youth that everyone can drink from?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*Praise for Fling!*\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFling! is both hilarious and touching. Every page is a surprise, and the characters! I especially loved Bubbles, one of the most endearing mothers in recent fiction. A scintillating read.\u003cbr\u003e~ Lewis Buzbee, award-winning author of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop and faculty at University of San Francisco MFA program\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pen-L Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033802260720,"sku":"9781942428299","price":14.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781942428299_p0.jpg?v=1763758321","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781942428299","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}