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, absolutely fell in love with glamorous, inspiring, gutsy  Honey.  A literary novel with a rebellious heroine, the daughter of  a New Jersey mobster, Honey 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 and her lover. Her nephews try to draw her back into the family with Honey increasing noticing signals of being in your eighties. Hilariously narrated yet with a sad undertone at times,  I particularly admired Honey' s guts  when she remembers the men in her life , her adventurous spirit still allowing new people to join her world.  Female rage at it's best, loved this wonderful novel!