The Unmooring of Mrs. Mango

Mrs. Mango has been married to her second choice for forty-two years, mindlessly trudging through her mundane life—except when she's dreaming of the fancy wedding she'll throw for still-single daughter Christine, or when she allows herself a half-hour locked in the bathroom to write tragic letters to her first love, Raul. When Christine announces at Thanksgiving dinner that she is gay and her friend Sarah is actually her girlfriend, disapproving Mrs. Mango is shaken to her core. Off kilter from her daughter’s perceived betrayal, Mrs. Mango’s quiet life tilts into a bewildering series of crazy happenings involving her husband, four grown children, dogs, cats, nosy neighbors, octogenarians, babies, random strangers and even a shaman. As family strife builds, Mrs. Mango is forced to confront her rigid world view, the secret she herself has hidden for almost fifty years, and the cause of a painful rift with her own mother. In the process, she discovers that what she thought she knew about love (and sex, definitely sex) was all wrong. The perfect book club pick.