Too Early to Know Who's Winning

<p>Jacobine Flaa and her increasingly unrealistic friend Cinda are approaching retirement in the Midwest in the age of Trump and climate crisis. Both want to move back to the western US but can they afford the housing prices there?</p><p>Jacobine a historian specializing in immigration combines teaching and museum work at a university and misses her California friends; Cinda an art historian employed less than happily at a small museum wants a more outdoorsy life and keeps applying for jobs in places she'd rather live.</p><p>The novel opens on Election Day 2016 when the two women meet for dinner with a third friend. When Trump captures the necessary electoral votes Jacobine attends many protests while Cinda though sharing her politics is no activist.</p><p>Jacobine struggles with health worries and the loss of friends and loved ones to cancer heart attack and suicide. What's more over time Cinda's sometimes crazy plans and peculiar expectations prompt Jacobine to rethink their friendship.</p><p>Jacobine must confront questions of aging death and renewal in her effort to regain a vibrant life. How will she pull herself forward as she turns sixty in the third year of the Trump presidency?</p>