You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes - it would be too awkward; and you can't say no - it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-bakedliterary events around the world. Question : how do you arrange to skip town? Answer : You accept them all. What could possibly go wrong? A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, and a bitersweet romance of chances lost. -- From the publisher.

A Lee Boudreaux book.