Land of Mango Sunsets LP

<p>Dorothea Benton Frank writes highly addictive tales of life's conundrums with hilarity and heat. Meet Miriam Elizabeth Swanson in a full-blown snit buoyed by a fabulous cast that runs the gamut from insufferable to wonderful. First is the arrival of Liz Harper Miriam's tenant from Birmingham who sets a new cycle in motion. Her other tenant Kevin stalwart companion with more style than Cary Grant shakes Miriam out of her fog to see which battles are worth the fight. Then there's Miriam's estranged son who announces he's marrying a Jamaican woman. And what about her ex-husband Charles and that sordid lingerie model of his? Finally you'll laugh and cry when Miriam meets a man named Harrison who changes her into a gal named Mellie. </p><p>Miriam spins out from the revolving door of her postured life as a Manhattan quasi-socialite while she thirsts no <em>starves</em> for recognition. It takes a few spins dips and one spectacular fall until Miriam gets her head on straight. Then in a whoosh she's off to the enchanted and mysterious land of Sullivans Island deep in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. </p><p>Told straight from the heart in Frank's vivid highly entertaining style <em>The Land of Mango Sunsets</em> just might be her finest work to date. If you decide to read this book don't make plans to do anything else for a while.</p>