Unaccompanied Women: Late-Life Adventures in Love, Sex, and Real Estate
*Starred Review* At age 66, Juska, a divorced teacher, placed a personal ad in theNew York Review of Booksproclaiming her desire "to have a lot of sex with a man I like." Her best-selling debut,A Round-Heeled Woman(2003), vividly recounted the steamy--and not so steamy--adventures that resulted from her refusal to go gently into senior-citizen celibacy. Her droll follow-up begins five years (and many dates) later, with Juska still precariously single, an "unaccompanied" woman looking for companionship and, yes, lots of sessions between the sheets. While she becomes a confidante to countless women, Juska readily admits to a less-than-stellar romantic track record. She pines for loves past: Robert, whom she desperately loved but who never loved her back (worse still, he took up with her best friend), and Graham, half her age and now happily married (heavy sigh). Juska is compassionate and wise, with an irrepressible, wry wit. She regales the reader with tales of her book signings and the testosterone-laden attendees she dubs "Men at the End of the Line." In a secondary--but no less compelling--story line, she longs for a larger home to replace the Berkeley, California, cottage she's outgrown. Even the most jaded souls will find it to hard to resist this sexy septuagenarian whose lust for life surely makes her the pride of AARP.Allison BlockCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.