Title: No Fireworks
Description: Abe Stone is a sixty-one-year-old alcoholic teacher going through his third divorce. When he starts receiving letters from his dead mother, Evelyn, he is thrown into a late-stage identity crisis. His fourteen-year-old grand-daughter, Lucille, is expelled from school and the unlikely couple embark on a quest to work out what Evelyn is trying to impart and how Abe can begin to put his dishevelled life in order.
Subjects: Mothers and sons, Fiction, Alcoholics, Identity (Psychology), Grandparent and child, Literary, Fiction, general