Shinny's Girls, the Trilogy

In the spirit of John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom novels, Shinny's Girls, the Trilogy reveals a social history of our times by presenting the life of what critics have called "an uncommon common woman" and her family of three daughters over two decades, with each linked novel â€" Shinny's Girls, Flashing Yellow and You Again - covering a single year. Through the threat of an obscene caller in the first novel, to the unravelling of a long kept secret in the third, the girls gradually leave home in Vancouver for Milan, New York and a goat farm in the redwoods of Northern California, and Shinny's world opens to experiences she would never have foreseen, including a white water rafting adventure that sparks a mid-life love affair; an email correspondence with a soldier stationed in Afghanistan, and her unintentional complicity with an identity thief who happens to be her grandson. Readers have described the Shinny novels as "fast paced and funny and a pleasure to read."