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Boomerang
Book Excerpt, Chapter
One
“You are bringing ruin to my department,” says Megan, her bosom
oozing from the top of her dress. Her words suspend in the air,
cartoon-like, then fall in perfect, enunciated syllables onto the
pink area rug. Heat rises to my neck and face.
The regulation six-by-eight community college office, windows shut
against a rare October breeze in the still air of Phoenix, reminds
me of a well-bred English woman’s home, all chintz and ruffles, rose
slip-covered chairs and English country prints. It smells of musty
pillows and talcum powder, a product Megan uses with abandon. Once I
caught her with a powder puff half-way to her armpit.
What a drama queen! Ruin? What did I do? I’m blank.
Megan lifts her chin for a power peer-down over the top of her
glasses. I move forward in my chair.
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ISBN: 1-4010-9303-5 (Paperback)
Pub. Date: March 2003
Pages: 246
Subject: FICTION / Humorous
Price: $14.95
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SYNOPSIS:
Our reluctant hero, Jean Rubin, is back for another round of dealing
with with problems on every front. Married to absent-minded Maury, a
physician fighting the managed care mess, their lives explode when
their son brings home his pregnant girlfriend, Rosa, who disrupts
the routine of the household.
Jean's professional life boils when she fails a student whose mother
is a right-wing legislator with immense popular support. She attacks
Jean and threatens to wreak havoc on the college. Jean's arrogant,
Anglophile department head, insists she change the grade. With her
job in jeopardy and the Dean applying pressure, Jean takes on a
fight for academic freedom.
To complicate matters, Jean's friends, April, a beautiful busybody,
and Glee, an erotic artist addicted to plastic surgery, introduce the Rubins
to a new couple who have their sites set on the pocketbooks of
Scottsdale's finest.
The three plots create hilarious and bizarre levels of stress as
they come to a climax when the scam artists make their move during
Passover as Rosa goes into labor. In the end Jean makes peace with
her daughter-in-law and triumphs in her defense of academic freedom
while Maury's distraction provides a twist that saves them from
financial ruin when the scam artists disappear. |
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