The Chick Palace

Can there be such a thing as a coming of age story when the characters coming of age are mid-life moms learning to deal with the changes in their families?  Leslie Davis Guccione, author of  The Chick Palace, would say yes and she would very effectively prove it as she wrote her book!  The Chick Palace shares the lives of the two main characters.  Lilly, a twice divoriced mother of a college aged son, and Johanna, a married mom of two grown children, still in need of mom's input in life.  The story is set at their summer retreat and we are quickly drawn into the lives they are living and sharing their memories of summer loves past and college days.  Ms. Guccione doesn't sugar coat the hard stuff but she presents it with humor and the grace that we've experience from mothers and as mothers.   The Chick Palace, provided a much needed escape from my sometimes "coming of age" life and with the humor and ease I identified with the characters, I found myself wishing for my own "Chick Palace".  Maybe, I'll help build my kids a tree house this summer so when I am empty nesting, I'll have my own memories and stories to remind me life is about the adventure!