The stakes in this fast-moving story are high, but its emotional and romantic payoffs are slow and sweet. But it’s up to readers to determine who has written what. Interspersed throughout the story are the women’s essays: surprisingly intimate, powerful, and profound. The novel combines equal parts laugh-out-loud humor with breathtaking pathos.
McMan explains, “In the process, they receive life coaching from a wise-cracking, two hundred-year-old bass named Phoebe, and uncover a subterranean world of secrets and desires.”īackcast is richly populated with a cast of endearing and outrageous characters who battle writer’s block, quirky locals, personal demons, unexpected attractions, and each other during their two-week residency. In between the lighthearted mayhem of regularly scheduled happy hours and writing sessions, the women conspire to enter a tournament bass fishing competition. This fast-paced comedy with a serious underbelly begins with sculptor and author Barb Davis receiving a coveted NEA grant to pair original feminist sculptures with searing first-person essays on transitions in women’s lives.Īccordingly, Barb organizes a two-week writing retreat on Vermont’s Lake Champlain with some of the best, brightest, and most notorious lesbian authors in the business. In the newly published contemporary novel Backcast, author Ann McMan provides an irreverent and insightful look at the hidden lives of women and how they laugh, love, and blunder their way through their own searches for meaning.
In the process of grappling with the differences between perception and reality, they are sometimes empowered to discover who they really are. What Happens When Women Attending a Writer’s Retreat Enter a Tournament Bass Fishing Competition? This u nconventional novel of self-discovery and empowerment truly is Fried Green Tomatoes meets The Big Chill by way of A River Runs through ItĪLL WOMEN HAVE hidden lives.
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