The Route: Lessons Learned from Meals on Wheels

Vibrant and funny, this inspirational novel treats aging and death as natural and often revealing parts of life. Deciding that she has arrived at a midlife crisis, Carol Nimitz volunteers to take meals once a week to homebound senior citizens. Every Thursday her delivery route brings her into the world of wacky and fascinating people whose backgrounds, good and bad decisions, and startling experiences have created strong personalities and lots of opinions. Carol's interactions with her old folks run the gamut from pesky to poignant, humorless to hilarious; and through their diverse lives she comes to see that there are many good reasons to savor one's later years.