Drives Like a Dream — Porter Shreve

“A hilarious family tale” about a modern-day mother's lifestyle crisis -- and her outlandish attempts to get her family back (Woman's Day).

Lydia Modine is sixty-one and about to come undone. Her three grown-up children have flown the coop. She hasn't seen them together in more than a year, and now her ex-husband is about to marry a woman half his age. And the insults keep coming: Lydia is stuck on a book she's writing about Detroit's car industry, which uncannily parallels her own life -- out with the old model, in with the new. She's poured her soul into her family, only to be abandoned in the City of Dream Machines. But then a twist of fate introduces her to Norm, an eco-car fanatic out to remake her and the world.
 
A “smart and funny” novel that's sure to appeal to anyone who has longed for an alternate life, Drives Like a Dream confirms that sometimes when you set out for a spin, the twists and turns can be perfectly rewarding -- and right (Chicago Tribune).
 
“A beautiful novel.” -- The Washington Post