Cleaning Nabokov's House / Leslie Daniels 322 pgs.Barb Barrett wakes up one day and realizes she can't stay in her marriage partly because her husband instructs her how to load the dishwasher. One thing leads to another and she takes her kids "camping" intending to never return. Instead, her husband ends up with custody of the kids and pretty much everything else and she is trying to find a way to survive on her own in the small town in upstate New York that is her husband's home town. It takes her awhile to get on her feet, find some friends, and develop her self confidence. In the meantime, the house that she is staying had previously been the home to a more famous tenet, Vladimir Nabokov and his wife Vera. Barb finds part of a book that she believes was written by Nabokov and that starts her on a path of redemption and taking control of her life. This is a fun and sexy little book about creatively making a living and just learning to live again after losing almost everything. Barb's relationships with her kids, her mother, and the locals are warm and funny and seem mostly possible. An enjoyable read. - Christa
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