Season for Tomatoes

<p><em>Season for Tomatoes: A Journey Story</em> tells the story of Elaine a forced early retiree. Prompted by a missing neighbor girl Elaine embarks on an ill-conceived risky and improbable quest-unwrapping layers of her malaise and a search for wholeness.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Tomatoes</em> evokes the restless spirit of the movie Nomadland while embracing unique characters such as: a runway Amish girl; a divorced salesman whose bedroom anxieties parallel Elaine's; a babbling hairdresser with razor-sharp insights; a quirky backwoods preacher with a troubled past; and an auto repair wizard who analyzes an owner's relationship with their car before opening the hood.</p><p><br></p><p>It is a story of relationships loss risk taking and hospitality.</p><p><br></p><p>On a road trip with no destination the protagonist has bottomed out.... Only at rock bottom is she able to see others' stories in her story.... Salvation lies in communion. -Robert Wolf <em>The Writer Within</em></p><p><br></p><p>An admirable novella.... Along the undemanding back roads of the rural Midwest-of beautifully rendered county parks small town motels beauty parlors mechanic shops and bars-Elaine encounters nothing more than hospitality again and again-until she reaches a dangerous precipice alone-and falls into a surprisingly-odd but rather amazing grace. - Mary Jane White poet and author of <em>Dragonfly. </em></p>