On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
Pub. Date: March 1st, 2013
Publisher: Slant
Hardcover
252 pages
252 pages
Synopsis from Goodreads
Ideals and reality collide when six college friends band together to start an ice cream store, promising "Better Food for a Better World," but finding a worse world than they had expected.
It seems like a great idea: six
friends from college pool their money and energy to start an ice cream store.
Natural High Ice Cream: Better Food for a Better World. It's high-minded, with
a wink, like the marital self-help group they all belong to. The store finds a
ready clientele in its northern California college town filled with amiable
ex-hippies who are happy to contribute to a better world, even if all they have
to contribute is the price of an ice cream cone.
But the store, like the marriage
group, turns out to be work, not fun, and rifts start to appear between the
friends. Nancy, who had seemed so easygoing and sweetly sexy when they started,
turns stern. Cecilia, who had wanted to be a musician, is openly bored. And
flighty, excitable Vivy is crawling out of her skin. She yearns for the old
days, before Natural High, when she and her husband Sam traveled around the
country with countercultural musicians and dancers. She'd give anything to have
those days back again.
And so quietly, without telling the
partners, she starts to rev up the old company, contacting her old acts--the
fat contortionist, the muscle-bound juggler. She's going to save them all, and
Natural High, too. But saving turns out to be harder than it looks, and Vivy
isn't the only one with secrets.
So, what do you think? Is it one that you'd like to add to your wish list? Have you already read it?
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