Böcker av Marjorie Klein

What if the Fountain of Youth is real?A 60-year-old virgin discovers the fountain of youth in her Miami backyard.Lorelei, the 60-year-old virgin, is part-owner of a Miami lingerie shop. When her well runs dry, she hires Juan, a Cuban well-digger, who taps into a hidden underground spring. Lorelei attributes her increasingly youthful appearance to her obsessively healthy lifestyle, but her business partner, Sharleen, suspects that it's the water she's been drinking, and campaigns to sell it from the shop.But someone else is interested in this water: Winona, a 500-year-old Native American woman who has lost the trail of the spring after following it through the ages. When she finds it again in Lorelei's backyard, she's desperate to claim it. The story evolves from there, linking Lorelei with Juan and Winona, and their connection to Ponce de Leon.

Zoe drives a cab in Miami Beach: Zippity Cab is her sixty-year-old pink Cadillac Sedan Deville that she's kept in tiptop shape until the day that it's battered by Tootsie, the mother of a Miami Beach commissioner, Hal, who is having career problems of his own. The vehicular conflict leads to a resolution of sorts when Hal hires Zoe as a driver for his father, Max, a once-powerful developer whose driver's license has been revoked. Max discovers that his most famous hotel, the legendary Louis Quinze, will be demolished and replaced by a glitzy new condo, and that his son Hal had a role in this. Max's decision to salvage his legacy exposes the mid-life delusions of Zoe and Hal. Unhappily on the cusp of fifty, Zoe ditches her once-beloved but now-mangled Caddy for a flashy new BMW. Fifty-something Hal, desperate to regain his place in a political and social climate that has left him behind, sells his soul to a developer and chases youth in the form of Staci, a comely Cuban who fears it's too late to achieve her own dream of Maxim fame. Each is at a turning point in life, trying to deal with change through the often-mindless pursuit of irrational desires, driven to recoup some part of their lives that may be gone forever-and may never have existed at all.