The Goddess Lounge
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Publisher Description
Penne Armour's bad day just keeps getting worse. First, she has to visit The Goddess Lounge, the notorious LA coffee house/knitting salon/menstrual palace decried by religious conservatives as a "man-hating elevator to hell." Then, she learns that her "inner goddess" is Venus, the goddess of love, the one goddess—if she believed in goddesses—that divorced-mom Penne would want nothing to do with. But when her ex-husband goes missing and she sets out to find him, maybe Venus is just what Penne needs to face down a one-eyed fashionista, a boar-taming olive-oil rancher, a hypnotic lounge lizard, an ocean of traffic, and her own increasingly irrepressible feelings for a businessman with a dangerous secret.
A comic, yet surprisingly thoughtful, riff on Homer's Odyssey, The Goddess Lounge asks the eternal question: Why be a hero when you can be a goddess?
Customer Reviews
The Goddess Lounge
The Goddess Lounge is a very funny female take on Homer's "Odyssey," where the ocean is the Los Angeles freeway system and the warrior is Penne Armour, a beleaguered mom with a penchant for swearing. The book begins in with a trip to the Goddess Lounge, a sort of feminist temple, where Penne discovers that her inner goddess is Venus. Yeah. She finds that hard to believe. Penne just wants to find her ex-husband and make him man up for his daughter, but this requires an Odyssey she never expected, and adventures that could turn a plain housewife into a goddess.