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1 month ago | 
journalgazette.net | Sarah Harman |Christy Keller
“I’ve got no career, no romantic prospects, and all the other mothers hate me. No one is coming to save me. No one was ever coming to save me. Tonight, for once in my life, I’m going to do the right thing. The hard thing.”Florence Grimes is a single mom with all the charisma of a Dumpster fire in “All The Other Mothers Hate Me.”The abrupt end to her girl-band career has left her broke, without friends (other than her neighbor, Adam, who takes pity on her) and aimless.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
journalgazette.net | Lisa Genova |Christy Keller
Being part of a perfect Connecticut family that values country club dinners over most things in life is enough pressure to make a 19-year-old pull apart at the seams. On top of that, imagine being dumped by the boyfriend you’ve been with for four years right before going off to NYU to start your freshman year – talk about triggering.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
journalgazette.net | Christy Keller
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
journalgazette.net | Liz Moore |Christy Keller
“Three rules were given to the campers upon their arrival ... The third — the most important, as evidenced by its display, in capital letters, in several communal locations — was WHEN LOST SIT DOWN AND YELL.”In the summer of 1975 at Camp Emerson (which everybody knew was owned by the well-to-do Van Laar family) a teenage camper is missing from her bunk and a widespread panic ensues as everyone starts searching for her, including the Van Laars themselves.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
journalgazette.net | Christy Keller
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
journalgazette.net | Christy Keller
“Could it be, she wondered, because here in Paris, in this restaurant, she had finally found the place where she belonged?”Stella had lived a safe, conservative life ever since she was child. She had no desire to be like her mother, Celia, who traveled the world searching for adventure and romance.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
journalgazette.net | Christy Keller
“Why does everyone assume that once you get past the age of seventy, all you want to do is play bingo and knit?”Taking the job of running the new Senior Citizens Social Club at the Mandel Community Center was an endeavor to keep Lydia from getting the empty nest blues now that her daughters were both out of the house. Planning activities such as jigsaw puzzles, tea time and macramé lessons was on the agenda.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
journalgazette.net | Christy Keller
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Apr 27, 2024 | 
journalgazette.net | Christy Keller
A failed marriage. The restaurant that didn’t succeed. Great-aunt Rosie’s dying when you need her the most. As some would say, “When it rains it pours,” and nothing could be closer to the truth for Sara Marsala. Life has thrown her into the trenches with force, and she has no idea what comes next. Fortunately, even from the grave, great-aunt Rosie knows exactly what Sara needs — a free trip to Sicily, of course.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
journalgazette.net | Christy Keller
“No one had asked her what she had wanted. No one had laid out options for her. No one had given her a choice in the matter. The question was: If she had a choice what decision would she make?”In 1964, Lorraine Delford lived in the perfect neighborhood in North Carolina. Being valedictorian was well within reach as she navigated her senior year of high school with her doting boyfriend, Clint, by her side.
