Meet Duffy, an old curmudgeon who lives in an assisted living home.
Meet Josie, a desperate young woman who climbs through his window.
Together, they´re going to learn it´s never too late--or too early--to change your ways.
For Duffy Sinclair, life boils down to one simple thing: maintaining his residence at the idyllic Centennial Assisted Living. Without it, he´s destined for the roach-infested nursing home down the road--and after wasting the first eighty-eight years of his life, he refuses to waste away for the rest. So, he keeps his shenanigans to the bare minimum with the help of his straight-laced best friend and roommate, Carl Upton.
But when Carl´s granddaughter Josie climbs through their bedroom window with booze on her breath and a black eye, Duffy´s faced with trouble that´s sticking around and hard to hide--from Centennial´s management and Josie´s toxic boyfriend. Before he knows it, he´s running a covert operation that includes hitchhiking and barhopping.
He might as well write himself a one-way ticket to the nursing home...or the morgue. Yet Duffy´s all in. Because thanks to an unlikely friendship that becomes fast family--his life doesn´t boil down the same anymore. Not when he finally has a chance to leave a legacy.
In a funny, insightful, and life-affirming debut, Brooke Fossey delivers an unflinching look at growing old, living large, and loving big, as told by a wise-cracking man who didn´t see any of it coming.