The Heart of a Thirsty Woman — Lana Witt

The year is 1976. Josie Tolliver lives in Pick, Kentucky, but her heart yearns to flee the small town. She spends her days reading Shakespeare and Carlos Castaneda and longing for the rarefied beauty of an Arizona sunset. She dreams of pursuing her passions in the desert town of Sage, where she lived briefly as a child -- and where, just maybe, she might find her sister Cheyenne, who disappeared when Josie was a teen. The only problem is that her husband Clarence, a TV repairman with dreams of starting the first satellite-dish business in Pick, is dead set against moving. After Josie's misguided but hilarious attempt to teach Pick about Castaneda backfires, even Clarence agrees it's time to leave town. The incongruous couple heads to Sage, where Josie rushes headlong into a whirlwind search for Cheyenne, self-knowledge, Castaneda's Don Juan -- and other mysteries that might help ease her unquenchable thirst for living.