THREE KEYS

A hugely entertaining exploration into the serious business of living a full and honest life, from an award-winning author. Filled with heartbreak and humor, this novel tackles the unavoidable sorrows and joys of smacking up against middle age - and does it with the zest and vigor it deserves.

Ammalie Stehno has just lost crucial pieces of her life's purpose: her husband, her job, and, now that her son has departed for college, her parenting role. She's also mystified to find herself in middle-age. How exactly had that happened? The idea of becoming irrelevant, invisible, of letting her life vaguely slip away... Well, the terror of that has her driving through Nebraska with a fork in her hair. What she does have is this: Three keys. Keys to empty homes she plans on breaking into. From Chicago to Colorado to Arizona to New Zealand, she embarks upon an adventure-filled journey as she seeks to find a life truly her own. And that middle-age business? As someone breaking the law, she finds there's real benefit to being invisible, which she uses to her advantage as necessary... until she becomes the striking, bold, and very much manifested self she wants to be. Laura Pritchett's novels have received awards such as the PEN USA Award, the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, the WILLA, the High Plains Book Award, several Colorado Book Awards, and multiple starred reviews. She's also the author of two nonfiction books. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Orion, Creative Nonfiction, O Magazine, The Sun, Salon, Lit Hub, The Millions and Publisher's Weekly, and many other publications. Her novel Stars Go Blue has been optioned for a limited TV series. Pritchett developed and directs the MFA in Nature Writing at Western Colorado University, one of the few programs in the nation to focus on cutting-edge environmental writing. You can see more about Laura at https://www.laurapritchett.com/.