The Land of Mango Sunsets

Miriam Swanson is thoroughly provoked and she doesnt mind letting you know. Twenty years ago her husband Charles, a powerful attorney with one of the last remaining white shoe law firms in New York, dumped her for a younger woman nearly half her age. Obviously it happens all the time and its not exactly news, but whats fascinating is to watch Miriam evolve from pathetic to spectacular. Perfectly proper Miriams great metamorphosis results from the arrival of a little red neck school teacher, Liz, from Nowhere, Alabama. Liz is Miriams tenant along with Kevin, a 50 something gay man who is Miriams best friend. Liz is everything that Miriam is not: young and thin. They constantly clash. Then finally, she meets a man named Harrison who changes her into a gal named Mellie.Miriam spins out from the revolving door of her postured life as a Manhattan quasi socialite while she thirsts, no, starves for recognition. How did she become what she hates the most and what does she endure to realize it? And where are the answers? It takes a few spins, dips and one spectacular fall until Miriam gets her head on straight. Then in a whoosh shes off to see her mother in the enchanted and mysterious land of Sullivans Island, deep in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.