Beginning
It used to be Cliff and Vivian and now it isn’t.
Cliff, a grizzled 60-year-old Michigan cherry farmer and former English teacher who has just been jettisoned by Vivian, his wife of nearly 40 years, goes on a road trip across America. He is armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission to rename all the states and state birds, the latter of which have been unjustly saddled with white men’s banal monikers up until now.
His adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high-school-teacher days twenty-some years before, to a "snake farm" in Arizona owned by an old classmate, and to the high-octane existence of his son, a big-time movie producer who has just bought an apartment over the Presidio in San Francisco.
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1 comment:
That opening says so much in just a few words. The English Major sounds like an interesting read. Road trip novels can be so much fun. I hope you have a great weekend!
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