Overview
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author Laurie Frankel, an exuberant and timely new novel
At seventy-seven, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She didn’t choose the Vista View Retirement Community of Austin, Texas—that would be her three grown children—but when she grudgingly moves in, she not only makes new friends, she falls in love. Then the exhaustion, vomiting, and confusion start. She fears it’s cancer, dementia, a stroke. But a raft of tests later, the news is even more shocking: She’s pregnant.
As word gets out, everyone wants a piece of her: the press and paparazzi, activists and medical researchers, belly-rubbers and rubber-neckers all descending on Vista View while Pepper struggles to determine her next move. Soon she has some hard decisions to make—and some she’s not allowed to make.
Enormous Wings is an urgent novel about female agency and bodily autonomy, morality and mortality. It’s about what happens when you don’t get to choose anymore. It’s about motherhood and family, sex and love and friendship, and how those bedrocks—even so late in the day—can still change, and then change everything.
Review
I will be honest, I had to sit on this one a bit before I wrote my review.
At seventy-seven, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She moves into Vista View Retirement Community of Austin, TX. She not only makes new friends, she falls in love. Then the exhaustion, vomiting, and confusion start. She fears it’s cancer, dementia, a stroke. But a raft of tests later, the news is even more shocking: She’s pregnant.
I almost skipped this book because I’m not a big fan of something that possibly could not happen. A 77-year-old woman being pregnant, not for me. But the reasoning behind it made sense and when you read this, you will understand why as well.
Y’all, this book makes you think. And it may not make you think what you want to. (Clear as mud!) I am so much in favor of body autonomy and the way this book is laid out really brings it to the forefront. And it may change your mind about a few things. So, if you don’t want to hear about something you disagree with…this book is not for you.
But if you want a good story that makes you think, with great characters….this book is for you…grab your copy today.
This is narrated by Becky Ann Baker and she is fabulous from start to finish!
I received this novel from the publisher for a honest review.
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