Victor Ladato: Honey, Harper Perennial,  9780063309630, paperback

With Honey Fasinga, Victor Ladato has created one of the best octogenerian female characters I can think off, absoltuely fell in love with glamorous, inspiring, gutsy  Honey.  A literary novel with a rebellious heroine, the daughter of  a New Jersey mobster, she did the unthinkable in her Twenties and ran off to California to work as an art auctioneer in LA. Now in her eighties, she has returned home, confronted with the loss of her closest friends, her lover, her family's nephews and increasing signals of being in your eighties. Hilarious and sad at times,  I admired Honey' s guts particularly when she remembers the men in her life but also her adventurous spirit, allowing new people to join her world Female rage at it's best, loved this wonderful novel!