Full Description
One woman's path to rediscovering herself through music, romance, and a little vigilantism
Inside Half Moon Bay, a sparkling California coastal town, Ester Prynn is dulled and diminished by struggles with work, money, marriage, her senile father, a troubled teenage son, and old guilt she can't assuage. When a masked gunman robs the convenience store where Ester works, he upends her fraught life and propels her toward passions buried, like singing; desires discovered, like a same-sex infatuation; and wrongs righted, like bringing the violent assailant to justice. But as the armed robber commits new crimes and continues to evade capture, the trauma from the holdup climbs, threatening Ester's newfound delights and longings and forcing her to contend with her burning regrets and what-ifs. In the reckoning between Ester and these growing, molten upsets, she's faced with enormous choices and must determine what and who can bring her to her best life.
Contents
The Holdup
Imalive
Blow Your House Down
How Not to Love Them
Nice Shock
Night Out
In-N-Out
Overflowing
Sing I
Numb Fish
Tiny Countless Acts
I'll Take Widow, Please
Catastrophe
Amazing
Good News
Don't Know Much
Home Invasion
A Fix
Soul Star
What We're Going to Do with You
Essential Body Part
Scratchers
The Big Date
Serial Killer
Get Ready
To Be Themselves
An Artist of Ordinary Things
Line of Duty
The Burn
It
There Will Be an Answer
Glass Instrument
A Change of Tune
This Better Work
Intertwined
Secret Find
Shark
Telltale Scar
Road Spill
Who's There?
Wrecking Ball
DÉjÀ Vu
The Yellow Cottage
The Split
Lockdown
Once Upon a Time
Fetch
Breaking News
Rise Up
The Proposal
Acknowledgments
