Four women hurtle toward a future none of them can foresee. There is June, who travels to Nevada in the 50’s for a quickie divorce and winds up founding a casino empire. There is Honorata, a mail order bride who wins a jackpot, and Coral, a Vegas native whose birth is shrouded in mystery. And there is Engracia, a young immigrant whose impulsive act of courage intimately binds all four women together.
An ABA IndieNext selection, In the Midnight Room is a book about courage, about how life demands it of us, and about how powerful it can be. It is also a book about an American boomtown: a Las Vegas resplendent with possibilities both beautiful and explosive. Fast-paced enough to read on a beach, […]
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