You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your
boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too
awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of
invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. Question: How do you arrange to
skip town? Answer: You accept them all. What would possibly go wrong?--Amazon.com.
