"The Jetsetters" by Amanda Eyre Ward

We cannot travel like we want to right now, but we certainly can read about travel until it is time to fly again. “The Jetsetters” by Amanda Eyre Ward is the perfect travel-filled novel to read right now. The story centers around matriarch Charlotte Perkins, who is understandably sad when her best girlfriend dies suddenly. A long-time widow, Charlotte’s new-found loneliness propels her to take a great risk: to write a sexy essay and enter it into the “Become a Jetsetter” contest. When, much to her surprise, Charlotte wins the contest she uses it as the perfect opportunity to bring her family together. She convinces her oldest daughter Lee (a struggling actress), her son Cord (a venture capitalist with secrets), and her youngest daughter Regan (a married mother of two who wants out of her marriage), to all join her on a cruise through Athens, Rome and Barcelona. What Charlotte hopes is a blissful reunion for the Perkins family, of course, turns out to be far more complicated than anyone imagined. Old rivalries, new revelations and life on the open seas, stirs up deep emotions for all four of them. They must deal with not only their feelings toward each other, but also their memories of the father who died too young. I hope one day I can dust my passport off again, but until then, we just have to live vicariously through wonderful books like “The Jetsetters.” To buy this book on Amazon click here.