Fiction by Tracy Manaster
This story takes place in 2010, in an Arizona retiree community, one of those golf-course-centered condo developments where all residents must be over 55. Into this setting several characters converge: an attractive recent widow, a divorced man still hung up on his ex-wife, a grandmother struggling to make ends meet due to the recent recession, and a couple of visiting grandchildren, one of which has stayed too long and is now in violation of the community's strict no-kids policy.
Also there is the owner/developer of the place, a man with an ego big enough to hold a festival on his birthday and call it Founder's Day, who has recently hired a couple of teachers from back East to try to give his upstart little community some culture and history.
This was a good character story that had a few small surprises.
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