Maps for the Getaway
Book Feature - Maps for the Getaway by Annie England Noblin
HBL Note: I am a huge dog lover. If you know just one thing about me (besides I love reading) it should be that I love dogs. Which is probably why I’m drawn to Annie England Noblin’s books, which have included Sit! Stay! Speak!, Pupcakes and the St. Francis Society for Wayward Pets. MAPS FOR THE GETAWAY includes a so-ugly-it’s-cute stray dog in its cast of characters in a story about four high school friends who vow to remain friends forever but drift apart over 30 years. When one of the four passes away, they reunite for a memorable road trip. Scroll down to read more.
From the publisher:
It was the road trip of their lives . . . and they did it without a map.
When they posed for a photo at their high school graduation, they vowed they’d be friends forever, but teenage promises are so easily broken, and now, thirty years later, they’re practically strangers.
Cici—stuck in a rut, married to a cheating husband.
Genie—caring for her ailing father but never getting any thanks.
Kate—everyone knows people who look perfect on Instagram are not.
And Laurie—the most successful of them all—now tragically gone.
So, to celebrate Laurie’s life, three former friends in a 1962 red Lincoln Continental convertible take the road trip of their lives—encountering male strippers, a boy band that has seen better days, crazy motel rooms, adopting a so-ugly-it’s-cute stray dog…and discovering that it’s never too late to live the wild life.
Because, sometimes, to find yourself you have to get away.