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From Kirkus Reviews: "Eileen Sologoski flees her old life in Michigan for a new life in Belize, though the weather-beaten seaside capital city is not
precisely as she imagined it would be. The 47-year-old woman left behind a husband, two nearly grown children, and a
teaching job in the middle of the school year, arriving in the country with little money and no employment prospects. She
rents a room for 50 dollars a month in the home of a Belizean man named Eduardo and his German wife, Kita. Like Eileen,
Kita is fleeing a troubled past, one she would prefer not to discuss. "You are here now," she advises Eileen. "Make a new
life for yourself." Eileen finds a job as a tour guide leading busloads of day-trippers to see the local Mayan ruins. She even
devises a new name for herself: Lennie Solo. Lennie manages not to think too much about the life she left behind-her
husband James, her twin boys just starting college-when James' parents arrive in Belize City on a cruise ship.
Confronted with the judgmental presence of Edgar and Wilma Sologoski, Lennie is forced to consider the decisions that
brought her to Belize and what decisions might send her back home again. Nelsestuen has a musical sense of language,
his sentences capturing the rhythms of both the landscape and the people who move through it... the narrative manages to
depict midlife crisis in all its messy self-involvement."
precisely as she imagined it would be. The 47-year-old woman left behind a husband, two nearly grown children, and a
teaching job in the middle of the school year, arriving in the country with little money and no employment prospects. She
rents a room for 50 dollars a month in the home of a Belizean man named Eduardo and his German wife, Kita. Like Eileen,
Kita is fleeing a troubled past, one she would prefer not to discuss. "You are here now," she advises Eileen. "Make a new
life for yourself." Eileen finds a job as a tour guide leading busloads of day-trippers to see the local Mayan ruins. She even
devises a new name for herself: Lennie Solo. Lennie manages not to think too much about the life she left behind-her
husband James, her twin boys just starting college-when James' parents arrive in Belize City on a cruise ship.
Confronted with the judgmental presence of Edgar and Wilma Sologoski, Lennie is forced to consider the decisions that
brought her to Belize and what decisions might send her back home again. Nelsestuen has a musical sense of language,
his sentences capturing the rhythms of both the landscape and the people who move through it... the narrative manages to
depict midlife crisis in all its messy self-involvement."