Denting the Bosch

Three middle-aged San Diego couples find themselves unmoored in the prime of their lives in this “intelligent, serious, eloquent” debut novel (Nancy Thayer,author of Heat Wave, Beachcombers, and The Hot Flash Club).

“Link gleefully combs through the wreckage of three crumbling marriages in the relentlessly perfect world of Southern California. With her sly sense of humor and generosity of spirit she reveals startling and tender truths about friendship and the deep desire for home.” —Lisa Fugard, author of Skinner’s Drift

Three couples in San Diego—best friends, empty nesters living the California dream—have reached a tipping point. With the blurry years of child rearing and corporate ladder-climbing over, each pair is finally free to enjoy the golden years together. Until two of the husbands suddenly announce they want a divorce.

As marriages and friendships unravel and the prosperity of the last few decades spins toward financial meltdown, Adele, Maggie and Sylvia find their carefully established footholds and expectations crumbling . . .

Denting the Bosch marks the debut of a talented new voice, and offers an alternatively hilarious and devastating assessment of modern life, marriage, middle age, friendship, money, sex and the American Dream.

“At once moving and hilarious, satiric and generously imagined.” —Jincy Willett, author of The Writing Class, Winner of the National Book Award and Jenny and the Jaws of Life