The Maxine Chronicles

Maxine Dorfman has it all--sagging jowls chubby elbows sexual batteries that need repair and frustrating fantasies about Burt Lancaster and her dentist Dr. Ronald Kertler. But there are two things she does not have: the notorious hooked Kleinkopf nose that runs in her family and a faithful husband. Mel her laid-off CPA husband dumps her for an older woman--a sixty-five-year-old woman. Maxine is left on ground zero in denial depressed and addicted to macadamia nuts.</p><P> Hope arrives in the form of Connie Piccini her best friend who encourages a reluctant Maxine to sign up for <I>Earth Trek</I> a weeklong fitness adventure in the Catskill Mountains. Three hikes two hot romances and one environmental crisis later transform our heroine from a fearful depressed victim into a self-empowered woman with passion power and purpose.</p>