A new novel, funny, wise, moving, true, as only Lisa Alther can write (she had me laughing at 4 in the morning --Doris Lessing), set on a cruise ship, about a woman, a doctor in charge of the ship's clinic, recovering from the loss of her longtime female lover, a much-admired writer, and coping with the high-wire madcappery of cruise ship life as she reckons with her past and feels her way into the future.
Jessie Drake, in her mid-sixties, following the sudden deaths of her p.
Knopf Publishing Group Swan song: an odyssey, hardcover/lisa alther
