Double time

Priscilla Cogan’s new novel Double Time will keep you up all night reading. Once you join Billy T. Pickle’s escape from a bank holdup he carries out to keep his wife Carmelite in shopping money so she won’t kick him out, you won’t want to leave him. Billy kidnaps a scruffy teenage girl after the robbery - who doesn’t mind because she was running away from home anyway - and discovers the tires of his getaway car (Carmelita’s)have been slashed. Within the sound of sirens Billy jumps into a powder blue Dodge Dart named Matilda being driven very slowly by an old lady. He shoves the teenager in front and holds a gun to their heads while ordering the old lady to head out of town. Thus this unlikely trio begin a zig-zag cross-country escapade filled with funny, witty and provocative conversation. As if each wild and exciting experience on the road is not enough, the teenager reads aloud from a novel belonging to the old lady to relieve boredom on the road. But beware. The journey isn’t just a wild adventure. In the end you will, as Cogan warns, wonder “what is real and what is fiction? Can a novel change the story of your life?”

    –Evelyn Wolfson,  author of A First Look At History: Native Americans, Growing Up Indian, From Abenaki to Zuni: A Dictionary of Native American Tribes, Hot Flashes from Abroad: Women Travel Tales and Adventures.

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