Stashes

Baby Boomer parents gallivant around the country in a Winnebago, leaving the family farm in the care of their immature son and his conniving wife. What could go wrong?

Stashes is set in Michigan, where auto manufacturing and agriculture forged a reliable middle class. It's Fall 2009, after unfortunate real estate practices gutted the American Dream. The plot focuses on two couples: the traditional, yet spunky Jackie and her dairy managing husband Steve, and their son, Brandon and his conniving wife, Amy. When Brandon loses his job and home to foreclosure, he and Amy must move in with the folks, who, with a desire to be as capricious as their kids, leave their homestead in the care of Brandon and Amy to travel the US by RV. Amy expands the business with pot cookies, dragging Brandon and Jackie into the scheme. As the local bank's VP, Amy secretly increases the Home Equity Line of Credit that financed the RV. Oops! Stashes is a comical crossover between family saga and drug caper, satire spun with good-natured American wit and grit.

Debut novel of self-schooled writer, who is a speech-language pathologist. PJ was born and raised in the Midwest, but aspired for adventures elsewhere, following her parent's model. She lives in southern California with her husband, whose name is not Steve. PJ Colando has had personal essays published in 'ASHA' and 'Orange County' magazines with short stories published in these anthologies: She Writes, Biscuit, Wisdom has a Voice, and Open to Interpretation. Writing this book over the course of three years was not only an adventure - it was a blast!