- Genre:fiction
- Sub-genre:Family Life / Marriage & Divorce
- Language:English
- Pages:216
- eBook ISBN:9798350994803
- Paperback ISBN:9798350994797
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Overview
Why Belize? considers the human condition in how we assess the lives we live, the disappointments we suffer, and asks what else there may be, including possibilities for a new beginning and both the time and the means to seize it.
Forty-seven-year-old “Eileen Sologoski flees her old life in Michigan for a new life in Belize, though the weather-beaten seaside city is not precisely as she imagined it would be. She adopts the name ‘Lennie Solo’ and tries to build a future on her own.” (Kirkus Reviews)
Lennie is overwhelmed by life’s disappointments: a distant husband, a tyrannical father-in-law, and life on a bleak rural homestead. But when confronted by her former in-laws, she’s forced to rethink what she’s done.
At the same time, her ex-husband James has determined to free himself from his domineering father and sets course toward a destiny all his own. And with that comes a measure of hope – both for him and maybe even Eileen.
“A thoughtful, quiet meditation… 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." Kirkus Reviews
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Why Belize? considers the human condition in how we assess the lives we live, the disappointments we suffer, and asks what else there may be, including possibilities for a new beginning and both the time and the means to seize it.
Forty-seven-year-old “Eileen Sologoski flees her old life in Michigan for a new life in Belize, though the weather-beaten seaside city is not precisely as she imagined it would be. She adopts the name ‘Lennie Solo’ and tries to build a future on her own.” (Kirkus Reviews)
Lennie is overwhelmed by life’s disappointments: a distant husband, a tyrannical father-in-law, and life on a bleak rural homestead. But when confronted by her former in-laws, she’s forced to rethink what she’s done.
At the same time, her ex-husband James has determined to free himself from his domineering father and sets course toward a destiny all his own. And with that comes a measure of hope – both for him and maybe even Eileen.
“A thoughtful, quiet meditation… 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." Kirkus Reviews
