Enormous Wings

Pepper doesn’t want to move into Austin’s Vista View retirement home: she wants her autonomy and doesn’t want to live under the same roof as her ex-husband, who’s already a resident. But to placate her three grown children, she moves in, and finds —it isn’t so bad. She makes friends! She falls in love! And then, despite having gone through menopause a quarter-century before, she falls pregnant. It can’t be possible—and certainly not safe—for a 77-year-old woman to successfully carry a pregnancy. But this is Texas, and she doesn’t have any medical options except to wait and see what happens next. This warm-hearted story is both cautionary tale and caper, a road trip story, and a poignant meditation on love through changing seasons. For fans of Frankel’s Family Family and Catherine Newman’s Sandwich.