The family has departed after a nice stay, many many logs reduced to ash in the fire-pit, and a good easter meal. Alison and I are feeling worn, and we're relaxing to compensate. Normally in these situations, we'd both read a book and nap intermittently, but finding ourselves lacking in the former, we ventured into town. Shantaram was the suggestion from an old man in the book store on Bay Street, so I thought he may have another suggestion. So when I asked today, I followed him blindly. Alison and I had a good time there, and as I left I recognized that for the first time, I find myself preferring the local bookstore to the larger, more popular chains.
Synopsis:
In the Ides of March, our hero, Raleigh Whittier Hayes (forgetful husband, baffled father, prosperous insurance agent and leading citizen of Thermopylae, North Carolina), learns that his father has discharged himself from the hospital, taken all his money out of the bank and, with a young black female mental patient, vanished in a yellow Cadillac convertible. Left behind is a mysterious list of seven outrageous tasks that Raleigh must perform in order to rescue his father and his inheritance.
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