The Land of Mango Sunsets Author: Dorothea Benton Frank
	Book Information Publisher: Avon Book Type: Mass Market Paperback Rating: 56 ISBN-13: 9780060892395 - ISBN-10: 0060892390 Publication Date: 4/1/2008 Pages: 304 Book Reviews

The "New York Times" bestselling author of "Full of Grace" delivers a highly addictive tale of hilarity, heat, and one woman's journey toward the hard-won truth that a genuinely happy life comes with a generous heart.

A middle-aged woman's self-discovery is predictable but not pedestrian in Frank's (Full of Grace; Pawleys Island) latest.
A divorce has stalled Miriam Swanson's life: her snooty Hermes-swathed Manhattan friends abandoned her after her ex-husband "ran off with his whore"; one of her grown sons keeps her at arm's length, while her other son, a "nice nerd," stays beneath the family radar for months at a time; and the major drawback to her job at a museum is her boss - icy former friend Agnes Willis. In a twist that stretches disbelief, Miriam catches Agnes's husband, Truman, having a noisy rendezvous with Liz, the cute new tenant in Miriam's townhouse. After a brief interlude that sends Miriam to a South Carolina barrier island to visit her former cotillion queen mother - and meet the dreamy local Harrison Ford ("Not that wimpy actor") - Miriam reveals Truman's affair, with consequences that fuel the remainder of the book. Frank's narrative is heavy on healing - physically, mentally - and the importance of family, and though her sometimes delightfully nasty heroine is sympathetic, supporting cast members have one note apiece. This isn't Frank's finest, but it'll sate her fans.
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