Description: Throw aside your idea of a heroine, and meet Claire Newbold. Despite hardship -- a young child's death, infertility, an unfaithful husband -- wry, ferocious Claire has been trying to soldier on. But then she simply checks out of job and home to confront love and loss on the road. During this leave of absence from her usual life, Claire's behavior ranges from the illicit to -- she fears -- the deranged. She develops a scam for staying in hotel rooms without paying. She seduces a teenage boy at a hotel swimming pool. Claire even comes to believe that she is clairvoyant -- able to "read" the souls of people she encounters on her travels. And eventually she begins to see into her own soul. Layover is a provocative, poignant, and entirely assured novel, with an unforgettable heroine at its heart.

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