Lily Iona MacKenzie - Fling!

When ninety-year-old Bubbles receives a letter from Mexico City asking her to pick up her mother’s ashes after its disappearance for seventy years, she hatches a plan. A woman with a mission, Bubbles convinces her hippie daughter Feather to accompany her on the quest. Fling! by Lily Iona MacKenzie alternates narratives that weave together Feather and Bubbles’ odyssey with their colorful Scottish ancestors. In Mexico, where reality and magic co-exist, Feather gets a new sense of her mother, Bubbles’ quest for her mother’s ashes and a new man.  At ninety, Bubbles comes into her own, proving it’s never too late to fulfill one’s dreams.

Lily Iona MacKenzie, a Canadian by birth, a high school dropout, and a mother at 17, supported herself as a stock girl in the Hudson’s Bay Company. She now teaches writing at the University of San Francisco. She founded and managed a homeless shelter in Marin County, co-created The Story Shoppe, a weekly radio program for children that aired on KTIM in Marin, and eventually earned two Master’s degrees. She has published reviews, interviews, short fiction, poetry, travel pieces, essays, and memoir. Her poetry collection All This was published in 2011. 

Location: 

51 Tamal Vista Blvd
Corte Madera, CA 94925
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ISBN: 9781942428299
Published: Pen-L Publishing - July 1st, 2015