Böcker av Ginny Fite

Cranky, aging newspaper publisher Anne Canfield is determined to live forever, no matter what. Young, brilliant writer and teacher Indira Anand thinks she wants to die. But the winter morning Anne saves Indira Anand from drowning, everything changes. That evening, Anne stumbles and falls. Diagnosed shortly after her fall with incurable brain cancer and only months to live, she must hurry to save her newspaper, heal her regrets, keep her secrets hidden, and protect her son from the truth before time runs out.Indira, suffering a second incidence of ovarian cancer, wants to invoke her right to die. Thwarted by both the law and her distant husband but desperate to escape the pain she watched her grandmother endure, she wavers, unsure of her decision. Out of options, Indira reaches out to Anne. Even as they make a pact to help each other, Indira realizes Anne won't live long enough to be with her at the end. She must find another way.Meanwhile, Anne's daughter-in-law, Laura, suffering her own loss and resentful of her husband Freddy's flagging attention, discovers Anne's secret. In a move she's sure will hasten Anne's death, Laura locates Anne's old lover, Colin, and goads him to turn up at Anne's home, hoping he'll upset the family she hates. For good measure, in an attempt to cause a rift between mother and son, Laura suggests to Freddy that Colin is his father.Leave is a story about what keeps us wanting to live, what we'll do for redemption, and how love can save us.

When it comes to murder, even brilliant scientists aren't immune…The night Harold Munson is shot dead in his car, the primary suspect is the man's brainiac wife. But Charlotte, who has a passion for science and sex with strangers, swears all she wants is a Nobel Prize for curing brain cancer, even if that requires fudging her research and a few dead patients along the way.When the next body drops, all signs point to Charlotte, but Detective Sam Lagarde doggedly follows the clues until he has his own Eureka moment.

Beyond menopause there is an insufficiently chronicled passage that women must undertake with courage and what dignity they can muster. But mostly, Ginny Fite suggests in this new set of essays, what women need to take into old age is a strong sense of humor and the ability to concoct fruit juices.

No matter how well you plan, you never know when something or someone may turn your life in a new direction-or even completely upside down. Whether it's the physics of fate or simply bad timing, every action produces a reaction-and no one can escape destiny.This collection of short stories explores these twists of fate against different backdrops-in real and imagined worlds, in the past, present, and future. In What Goes Around, three generations of a West Virginia family survive domestic abuse, coping in surprisingly disparate ways. "Year of the Vampires" describes a group of friends battling outsiders wreaking havoc on their island. In "Learning by Heart," a family confronts their youngest son's addiction. Covering terrorism, grief, and murder, these stories reveal that sometimes, well after hope is gone, life rewards you for simply surviving.What Goes Around examines the wheels of destiny as they turn, bringing rewards and punishments to those who must face their demons.