cover image Summertime

Summertime

Maureen McCoy. Pocket Books, $6.95 (304pp) ISBN 978-0-671-62188-9

At age 85, Jessamine Morrow suddenly runs off with a fellow resident of her nursing home, an action that shocks her sad, recently widowed daughter-in-law and her newly pregnant, hippie granddaughter. PW called the three main characters here ""quirky, believable and fully realized.'' (March)