THE LATE BLOOMER is the story of Fanny Goldstein, a fifty-year-old virgin who doesn't want to die wondering what she has missed. Although this novel cartoons modern values and its superficial pleasures, it is far more than a funny story. Society would call Fanny and her friends misfits, but their love for each other lends them great dignity.

The story opens the day of the San Francisco earthquake in 1989. Fanny is a librarian, dominated by her demanding, unsympathetic mother. She is short, plump and socially backward. Yet, she is so generous and caring that everyone who knows her loves her. After the earthquake, Fanny returns home from the library to find her mother dead and herself a millionaire. Her mother willed Fanny all her assets including her dog, William and her lover, Hymie. We follow Fanny through a year with her two legacies and see the unexpected ways she learns that being a fulfilled human being does not involve dropping her pants as much as it demands that she open her heart.

What a hoot! A charming urban tale and a welcome relief from heavy-handed mysteries and miseries. Fanny and her soul mates push Pollyanna into the twentieth century.

Rev. Angel Stork
Author of Practically Perfect Weddings & Commitment Ceremonies

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If you want to add some real bloom to your life, you owe it to yourself to read THE LATE BLOOMER. I laughed; I cried and felt my heart warming up in gratitude for this wonderful story by Lynn Ruth Miller.

Michael D. Fein
Editor, The Gantseh Megilla

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Lynn Ruth Miller has been published in various fields for forty years. Her writing often deals with feminist issues and appeals to readers who enjoy Laurie Colwin for her ethnic flavor and commentary on the idiosyncrasies of modern life, and Anne Tyler for her slightly out of sync frame of reference. The Late Bloomer is reminiscent of the writings of Barbara Kingsolver and Mona Simpson, with a definite streak of HAROLD AND MAUDE in its theme. The story is deceptively deep and has something to say to anyone puzzled and discouraged by society’s impossible standards of beauty and success.

The Late Bloomer (IBSN: 0-9763271-9-8 Paperback. Size: 6”x9” 268 pages) by Lynn Ruth Miller published January, 2006. The price per copy is $18.95. For a review copy or advance information, please contact Lynn Ruth Miller, (650) 355 4296 or MK Publishing 800 551 1023

It is available through MK Publishing, Baker & Taylor, Amazon.com, and www.lynnruthmiller.com . It is listed with Ingram’s.