A Divorcee Dude Ranch? Yes, Please.

A DIVORCEE DUDE RANCH? YES, PLEASE.

“When I was in my twenties, I wanted to be a novelist but never had the nerve to try," says author Julia Claiborne Johnson, who started her first novel (the sly Be Frank Me With Me) at 50. "By then, I didn’t care what anybody thought about what I was doing anymore." See? This is precisely what I love about getting older: you call the shots.

Johnson's latest novel Better Luck Next Time takes us to Nevada in the late 1930s, where women spend six weeks at the Flying Leap ranch to establish residence in the state and then nab a divorce. The story follows the fast friendship of two witty aspiring divorcees--Emily and Nina--who discover that life not only goes on, but gets better and better. Johnson is a mistress of wry asides and screwball hijinks. I literally read some of her lines out loud and cackled. It's such a fun read that you might devour this novel in one sitting.

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