One of my novels I recently self-published. It begins...
Bedda Harris had always loved sex and at seventy-eight she was still going strong. She was limber for her age, her joints in good working order, no titanium parts, her heart beating like a clock, and as for her bladder–well, no diapers for her. Yet sitting in the front of the bus, her face turned toward the window, she was fighting off panic....
This is the opening paragraph of one of the three novels I recently published on Amazon's KDP. Yes, it's a satire on older women and younger men coming together in a fictitious South American town for an ancient cougar beauty contest, but underneath the satire lies more. Here's the synopsis:
It’s the summer of the 4th Annual Fashion Beauty Pageant for Women of a Certain Age Plus More, contestants traveling from all over the world to Ciudad de las Pumas Antiguas, or City of the Ancient Cougars, a fictitious South American resort. Along with the women and their seamstresses, young men in their twenties and thirties converge on the town, some gigolos, some fetishists and some genuinely interested in elderly women.
Beneath the satirical nature of the resort with its age-difference relationships, young men courting and even proposing to women as much as sixty years their senior, and with its stores such as Crone’s Scones, Tote’s for Old Goats, and Hag’s Rags, with an Institute that sells vagina softeners and with the Trollope Teahouse that serves wench tea and whore burgers, the novel explores the themes of grief, loss and loneliness that is threaded throughout the characters’ lives.
The six-week pageant follows six different characters through their battles with their identity: contestant Bedda Harris, an elderly narcissist who uses young men to make her feel young, but who desperately finds her health ailing; Skeeter Jones, her seamstress granddaughter who Bedda mercilessly controls and who is mourning the death of her beloved father; Bobby Palomino, an impotent young man unlucky in love who hopes that perhaps an elderly woman could love him; the voluptuous Luna Santiago, a beautiful young woman who has moved here from New Mexico to avoid being harassed, thinking it emotionally safer being among men who prefer old women; Jamie Kincaid, her good buddy who gives of himself to different young men but finds himself unloved and thrown away; and contestant Dixie Poinbottom, a widow in her eighties who hopes that the pageant may help her to deal with her seemingly unstoppable grief.
It is through their interactions with each other, plus others at the resort, that these characters struggle to come to terms with their core identity.
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Thank you so much to those of you who purchased Race-Switch, and if you feel like writing a short review on Amazon that would be great!
And thanks so much to all of you who purchase this or my third novel Nobody-Girl.
Here's the address to my website:
elizamimski.com
One of my novels I recently self-published. It begins...
Bedda Harris had always loved sex and at seventy-eight she was still going strong. She was limber for her age, her joints in good working order, no titanium parts, her heart beating like a clock, and as for her bladder–well, no diapers for her. Yet sitting in the front of the bus, her face turned toward the window, she was fighting off panic....
This is the opening paragraph of one of the three novels I recently published on Amazon's KDP. Yes, it's a satire on older women and younger men coming together in a fictitious South American town for an ancient cougar beauty contest, but underneath the satire lies more. Here's the synopsis:
It’s the summer of the 4th Annual Fashion Beauty Pageant for Women of a Certain Age Plus More, contestants traveling from all over the world to Ciudad de las Pumas Antiguas, or City of the Ancient Cougars, a fictitious South American resort. Along with the women and their seamstresses, young men in their twenties and thirties converge on the town, some gigolos, some fetishists and some genuinely interested in elderly women.
Beneath the satirical nature of the resort with its age-difference relationships, young men courting and even proposing to women as much as sixty years their senior, and with its stores such as Crone’s Scones, Tote’s for Old Goats, and Hag’s Rags, with an Institute that sells vagina softeners and with the Trollope Teahouse that serves wench tea and whore burgers, the novel explores the themes of grief, loss and loneliness that is threaded throughout the characters’ lives.
The six-week pageant follows six different characters through their battles with their identity: contestant Bedda Harris, an elderly narcissist who uses young men to make her feel young, but who desperately finds her health ailing; Skeeter Jones, her seamstress granddaughter who Bedda mercilessly controls and who is mourning the death of her beloved father; Bobby Palomino, an impotent young man unlucky in love who hopes that perhaps an elderly woman could love him; the voluptuous Luna Santiago, a beautiful young woman who has moved here from New Mexico to avoid being harassed, thinking it emotionally safer being among men who prefer old women; Jamie Kincaid, her good buddy who gives of himself to different young men but finds himself unloved and thrown away; and contestant Dixie Poinbottom, a widow in her eighties who hopes that the pageant may help her to deal with her seemingly unstoppable grief.
It is through their interactions with each other, plus others at the resort, that these characters struggle to come to terms with their core identity.
***
Thank you so much to those of you who purchased Race-Switch, and if you feel like writing a short review on Amazon that would be great!
And thanks so much to all of you who purchase this or my third novel Nobody-Girl.
Here's the address to my website:
elizamimski.com