Hitching to Nirvana

Hitching To Nirvana is a novel of midlife and adolescence. Adrianne, a 45-year old photographer, has been running from her past all of her adult life. When time calls for her to care for her elderly father and she returns to the working class tract house neighborhood where she grew up, the news that her old high school best friend has died resurrects the ghosts from her adolescence in the 1970s. The girls are modern Maenads -- shining, wild, and doomed, trying to escape their soul deadening lives with alcohol, sex and drugs. When Adrianne hits turbulence in midlife -- her long-term relationship hanging by a thread, a new love interest beckoning, her job soon to be nonexistent -- she finds that she must return to the past before she can go on.