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Three Keys
Three Keys: A Novel | Laura Pritchett
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Newly widowed and unemployed, a woman in her mid-fifties sets off on a journey of trespassing and adventure through the American West and beyond in this witty, thought-provoking novel from the PEN USA Awardwinning writer. Filled with award-winner Pritchetts electric prose and love of the natural world, this book is irresistible.Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Days of Wonder Becoming invisible is painful . . . unless you know how to work it. Ammalie Brinks has just lost the three keys of her lifes purposeher husband, her job, and her role as a mom, after her son went off to college. Shes also mystified to find herself in middle age: How exactly had that happened? The terrifying idea of becoming irrelevant, invisible, of letting her life slip away Into obscurity, has her driving distracted through Nebraska with a broken plastic fork in her tangled hair. But what Ammalie has found are three literal keys, saved in a drawer for years, from her and her husbands past. They are the keys to homes that she hopes will be emptyand plans on spending time in. Embarking on an international and increasingly complicated journey (criminal behavior turns out to be challenging!), she seeks to find a life truly her own. And that middle-age business? As someone breaking the law, Ammalie finds there's a real benefit to being invisible when youre working on becoming the striking, bold, and very much manifested self you want to be. Laura Pritchett, winner of the PEN USA Award for Fiction and the Colorado Book Award, offers a delightful exploration of the very serious business of living a full and honest life. Filled with love, heartbreak, and misdemeanors, Three Keys tackles the unavoidable sorrows and joys experienced during a second coming of age with the zest and vigor that it deserves.
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robinb
Three Keys: A Novel | Laura Pritchett
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Hmmm. I think this story was supposed to be about a 50+ year-old woman finding herself after the recent death of her husband (who she was planning to divorce)? She takes off on a road trip after his death, during an estrangement with her aimless son, a sister fighting terminal cancer and a best friend also contemplating divorce (Hey, let‘s do it together! 🎉And no, I‘m NOT kidding 😳). She visits three different places (a CO AirBNB from a past 🔻

robinb happy vacation, a battered vintage travel trailer in AZ that her husband previously stayed in with friends and an artist-in-residence abode in New Zealand where her future husband stayed with his lover on a break from their dating). Thus the adventures begin. TBH, I almost gave up on this at least twice for nothing more than my dislike of the main character. I found her whiny, extremely obsessed with sex (just too much) and selfish and I 🔻 4mo
robinb actually had no sympathy/empathy for her at all. Along her “three key” destinations she squatted at all three locations without consent (Is that redundant? LOL), illegally replaced her car tag, and various other minor illegalities. The author felt like she was using this odd mishmash of a tale as an excuse to politically preach to the reader. And I was sorely disappointed with the epilogue which was 🔻 4mo
robinb totally out of left field and not at all satisfying. Just not for me. 2/5⭐️ (edited) 4mo
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bookandbedandtea Thanks for your review. I love the cover (I definitely judge books by their covers ☺️) and was drawn to this book because of it. I'll give it a pass now. 4mo
robinb @bookandbedandtea I also loved the cover (gorgeous) but was really surprised by the story and unfortunately not in a good way. 🤷🏻‍♀️ However (as we all know), to each his own…this will no doubt be a 5⭐️ read for some folks. 👍 So if you‘re interested, please don‘t let me dissuade. 4mo
dabbe #fanofthepan! 🤩🤩🤩 4mo
robinb @dabbe 😂😂 Thanks! It‘s always a bummer to do it, but I‘ve promised to be true to myself. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 4mo
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