The Farewell Tour by Karen S. Bennett
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Overview: In the autumn of 1998, Bev Schuler’s personal PIN, 2598, suddenly started showing up with urgency on her bills and personal accounts, but the wake-up call came when her PIN was the number that won her close to three thousand M&Ms in her granddaughter’s scout’s fundraiser. “It is as if the numbers are telling me something.”
Bev contemplates her life, and realizes she has completed all of the average life mile markers and concludes the numbers 2, 5, 9, 8 are an upcoming date, and the only thing left to do is to die. She’s a healthy fifty-four-year-old widow, and doubts she would suddenly die on a date’s command, but maybe an accident awaits. Her sister assures her she is crazy but cannot deny the recurrence of the sequential four digits are ever present for Bev.
In her many self-debates, she admits to her fears, but knows she is powerless to change the numbers and their prodding. She concludes she’ll go out with a bang in three months’ time. No more diets and watching the grass grow in her little pokey, vanilla hometown in Pennsylvania, she’ll give them an obituary to remember. Bev sets about closing up her house, saying good-bye to her family, and arranging her Farewell Tour.
She flees to Alaska, Russia, and India where she is scratched by branches in the dog sled ride, is shot in the arm by a child, pursued by a spy, has her purse stolen in Russia, and saves the life of an Indian child.
In her solitary travel with her on-again, off-again loneliness, Bev has time to recall, ponder and rethink. She revisits her marriage from the figurative and actual distance, and welcomes her burgeoning new insights.
On the PIN date of her suspected and expected death, Bev meets a flirtatious German man, who celebrates love-at-first-sight as she strolls into his view. He calls it Kismet. He points out her recurring numerals were indeed a date, not of her death, but of the beginning of her new life. Bev gratefully re-sets her head and heart to fully engage in living straight up to the end—later, much later.
Genre: Women’s Fiction | Humor
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