The Widows' Adventures

Charles Dickinson. Quill, $12.5 (386pp) ISBN 978-0-380-70847-5

Dickinson depicts recently widowed elderly sisters Ina and Helene, who resolve to leave their suburban Chicago neighborhood behind, master their fear of loneliness and drive to Los Angeles; only Helene knows how to drive, and she is blind. ``Dickinson offers a tightly constructed, highly deliberate narrative. . . . His accumulated insights, and the rhythm at which he reveals them, will linger and leave a lasting impression,'' commented PW. (Sept.)

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