Mailbox: A Scattershot Novel of Racing, Dares and Danger, Occasional Nakedness, and Faith

By Nancy Freund

Deep, delightful, and compulsively readable...
In the aftermath of Nixon's controversial presidency, America turns 200 while scrappy agnostic protagonist Sandy Drue turns 10, finds an electric typewriter in her father's office and begins producing pages on the conflicting demands of burgeoning adolescence and her own search for the Meaning of Life. Sandy's family has moved to Small Town, USA from New York, and Sandy's quest is complicated by cross-cultural questions no one expected to encounter -- least of all her intellectual, artist mother or entrepreneurial father. Like a blog long before blogging, Sandy creates a sort of mother-daughter love story as she both embraces and rejects her mother's complicated example to find her own way into adulthood and the world.
A delightful novel that is hopeful, heartbreaking, and profound in its treatment of life's larger questions -- revealing our shared need for solace, nostalgia, and good old-fashioned fun.
Date of publication, American Mother's Day, May 10th, 2015