Finding Grace

Grace Caro's cross-country trip to San Diego to begin her new life is abruptly derailed when after selling her home and saying goodbye to her family, and after traveling the roads only a few hundred miles from Minneapolis, her eyesight begins to fail. She has kept her diagnosis of macular degeneration secret from everyone until she is forced to stop in Blue Springs, a small town of 321 in Nebraska. There, she is befriended by complete strangers in a restaurant where she encounters Frieda, a DACA dreamer. Telling Grace's story to strangers is cathartic for Grace and the author manages to make the characters in the narrative real and political as well as laugh out loud funny.The Thelma and Louise scenario that follows as Grace is joined on her journey with Frieda, culminates in Arizona, where disturbing consequences occur and reality takes its toll. Starr Sanders' view of the beauty of people and places is astonishing. She is a master of writing yet another novel filled with twists and turns as well as the unexpected ending.