From Amazon.com ~ At age 66, Juska, a divorced teacher, placed a personal ad in the New York Review of Books proclaiming her desire "Before I turn 67, I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like." Her best-selling debut, A Round-Heeled Woman (2003), vividly recounted the steamy--and not so steamy--adventures that resulted from her refusal to go gently into senior-citizen celibacy. Her follow-up begins five years (and many dates) later, with Juska still single, an "unaccompanied" woman looking for companionship and, yes, lots of sessions between the sheets. While she becomes a confidante to countless women, Juska readily admits to a less-than-stellar romantic track record. She pines for loves past: Robert, whom she desperately loved but who never loved her back (worse still, he took up with her best friend), and Graham, half her age and now happily married. She regales the reader with tales of her book signings and the testosterone-laden attendees she dubs "Men at the End of the Line." In a secondary story line, she longs for a larger home to replace the Berkeley, California, cottage she's outgrown. I saw this book at Chapters in the new release section and it sounded interesting. And it was. It was interesting to read the day-to-day accounts of a woman almost 30 years older than I am who is still looking for love.
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