Today, we’ve got a lovely piece by Sarah Adler, author of the new romance Mrs. Nash’s Ashes. It follows the adventures of a woman tasked with delivering the ashes of her dear friend, the recently deceased Mrs. Nash, to a long-lost lover halfway down the East Coast. Air travel being the absolute hell that it is, she ends up stuck in a car with a hot person that she absolutely does NOT like, and hijinks ensue. Well, she’s written a piece for us about the experiences that helped shape the book — specifically, her relationship with her grandmother and her compatriots at her nursing home. Sarah writes: “In my preteen years, it wasn’t uncommon for my parents to receive a phone call from my grandmother’s nursing home asking them to please come speak with her because she was trying to stoke an uprising again. Her usual rallying cry? “Too much chicken!” The residents’ displeasure with their dining choices had likely been going on for years, but my grandmother encouraged them to articulate it — often loudly. She even made up a little song, a riff on the Bagel Bites commercial jingle.” You’ll enjoy it! Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor |
