THE LAWS OF ELEANOR:

The Laws of Eleanor: Reviewed by Cate Gable for The Chinook Observer/Long Beach, WA

The Laws of Eleanor unfolds as three women sit at the kitchen table talking and drinking gin, riding in the tow truck all over the mountain, sitting at the kitchen table talking and drinking gin, going out to eat greasy restaurant food, sitting at the kitchen table talking and drinking gin.

Toby is the tow truck driver, mountain woman, horse trader, whose words are like boulders in an unfordable dry river bed. Eleanor is the mean little bitch by reputation only, whose words are like tiny stones of Sisyphus rolling before Teach hauntingly day after day after day. Then one day something different happens.

“Where before questions hung in the air without words, there now dropped between us a drawbridge, lowered across a deep, dark moat, ropes taut, with one single banner flying in the wind, Write it down, Teach, write it all down.”

The Laws of Eleanor opens with a mythical In the beginning of Eleanor’s coming to the mountain. It takes Teach two years to write it down, write it all down, to figure it all out, and finally to write Eleanor a long overdue letter. “Seems if I just put a question down on paper as if I'm talking to you, the answer comes loud and clear. That's what you left me, isn't it? That's my legacy. That and a few words I've come to call the laws of Eleanor.”

Sample Chapter: The Laws of Eleanor