Cybill Unbound

<p class=ql-align-justify>Cybill Berenson mother of three newly divorced at age 42 is sure the most passionate years of her life are behind her. Then she meets Mel a sexual shaman who takes her to new heights-and new depths. After their liaison ends she feels a new openness to pleasure and she sees that the conventional life is not for her. She falls in love with Quinn a much younger man; she travels to the Burning Man festival on her own; she edits a book called <em>Adultery Now</em> (which outrages her children); she takes lovers while in her fifties and sixties. Cybill never stops seeking the thrill of deep connection to another human being. When a lover calls her his soul-mate Cybill realizes it was for moments like this and not sex that she had love affairs.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>John Updike described Hiller's story collection <em>Skin</em> as Good brave and joyful fiction. The same can be said about <em>Cybill Unbound</em>-a novel like <em>Fear of Flying</em> for those over forty.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Uh-oh! Cybill's witty rationalizations for her bold adventures are seeming all too rational to me.</p><p>-Kathleen Rockwell Lawrence author of <em>The Last Room in Manhattan</em></p>