With her acting career on the wane Louise Wilde heads off to Las Vegas to make a film that will keep the wolf from the door.
She gets diverted by memories of her past and the notebooks she inherited from her mother’s old friend Florrie Daniels.
Instead of Vegas she takes off on a road trip from the past.
Alternating from Louise’s drive to the one her mother Ethel took years before this book offers a glimpse into the past and the people who live there.
I found this really interesting, with Ethel and Florrie’s story being told in the form of notebooks and a rough film script, which gives you the thoughts of two women driving from New Jersey to California via Nevada, the camp grounds, the meals and the friendship laid out in pen and ink.
I actually found their journey far more interesting than the one being made by Louise I struggled with her as a character, mostly because I felt she was acting all the time. Being someone else and I couldn’t connect with her.
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