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    Lady Luck's Map of Vegas

    Written by Barbara Samuel

    Narrated by Bernadette Dunne

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    About this audiobook

    A successful Web designer, forty-year-old India has a fabulously hip life in Denver and a sexy Irish lover in New York who jets out to see her on bi-weekly visits. The long-distance romance suits India just fine: Though Jack is the only man who has ever made India feel truly alive, she doesn't want things to get too serious. But then her father passes away, and India must honor the promise she made to him: to look after her mother when he's gone.
    Suddenly India finds herself back in Colorado Springs with the woman who both intrigues and infuriates her. Eldora is sixty something and exquisitely gorgeous, but her larger-than-life personality can suck the air out of a room. True to form, Eldora throws India a curveball, insisting that they hit the road to look for India's twin, Gypsy, a brilliant artist who lives a vagabond's existence in the remote mountain towns of New Mexico. It looks like India can't avoid her mother's intensity any longer, especially after she discovers stunning secrets from Eldora's past.
    Thirty years ago, Eldora regaled her twin girls with glamorous stories about her days as a Las Vegas showgirl- stories of martinis and music at the Sahara, back when Frank and Sammy ruled the town. But the story of how she really ended up in Sin City, and the unsavory life she'd run from with her daughters in tow, is full of details she's never seen fit to share-until now.
    As mother and daughter sail down Route 66, the very road Eldora drove those many years ago, looking for Gypsy, while passing motels, diners, and souvenir shops, Eldora must relive a lifetime of memories that have tormented her before she can put them to rest once and for all. . . .
    Award-winning author Barbara Samuel brings us a heartfelt story of second chances and unexpected detours. As two women come to terms with themselves and each other, the past unravels and the future spreads out before them like the open road.

    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 6, 2004
    ISBN9781415908143
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    Lady Luck's Map of Vegas
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    Barbara Samuel

    Barbara Samuel is the award-winning author of several novels, including A Piece of Heaven and No Place Like Home. She lives in Pueblo, Colorado, with her two sons, where is she currently writing her next novel.

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    • 4/5
      India and her mother, Eldora, go on a road trip to find India's twin sister. India recently found out she is pregnant by her long distance boyfriend and is having second thoughts about the pregnancy. Eldora decides now is the time to tell India the truth about her own past in Vegas during the time of the Rat Pack. I enjoyed this book. Definite chick lit!
    • 4/5
      This is about a woman and her mother connecting on a road trip searching for themselves and a lost sister/daughter. Very much worth reading
    • 3/5
      An interesting story told from the viewpoint of India, a forty year old women trying to find her place in life; and, her mom, a woman with many secrets. These two ladies set off to find India’s twin sister who suffers from schizophrenia. On the way, the tell their secrets, find their way, and come to terms with their lives. This is a fast read and the characters are quite enduring.