Dorothea Benton Frank is among America’s most insightful writers weaving highly addictive stories from the conundrums of lifestyle with hilarity and warmth. Right now, in The Land of Mango Sunsets, Frank provides us one woman’s trip toward a hard-won truth-life isn’t constantly what it looks, and the sooner you realize that satisfaction won’t keep you warm at night, the more happy you’ll be. Oh, and one other thing-a truly joyous lifestyle includes a generous heart.

Meet Miriam Elizabeth Swanson, inside a full- about The Land of Mango Sunsets blown snit, buoyed by the perfect cast who run the gamut from insufferable to wonderful. Initial is the arrival of Liz Harper, Miriam’s tenant from Birmingham, who sets a new routine in motion. After that her other tenant, Kevin, stalwart partner with more design than Cary Grant, shakes Miriam out of her fog to find out which fights are worthy of the fight. Next, her estranged kid announces he’s marrying a Jamaican girl. And how about her ex-husband, Charles, and that sordid lingerie model of his? Well, Harry, her African Grey parrot, has a lot of opinions. Finally, you’ll giggle and cry when she meets a man called Harrison who adjustments her right into a gal called Mellie.

Miriam spins out from the revolving door of her postured lifestyle as a Manhattan quasi-socialite while she thirsts, no, starves for identification. How do she become what she hates the most, and what does she withstand to understand it? And where will be the answers? It takes a few spins, dips, and one magnificent fall until Miriam gets her at once straight. Then in a whoosh she’s off to the enchanted and incomprehensible property of Sullivans Isle, deep in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.

Told right from the center in Frank’s vivid, highly entertaining design, The Land of Mango Sunsets just might be her finest function to date. If you opt to go through this book, don’t make programs to do anything else for some time.