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Reviewed by Stephen Christopher for Readers' Favorite
At 40, Joe Dunning had a heart attack in his cubicle at work, and nobody cared. At 59, he was forced into early retirement. He took that opportunity to turn his back on America, and with a small bag of clothes and his laptop, he moved to Southeast Asia, where he lived in Thailand and Vietnam. He planned to live out his days, enjoying a simple life and writing. In Thailand, he met the mysterious Em, a friend of the daughter of a friend. After a dinner party, he woke up the next day to discover that she’d more or less moved in. He didn’t mind. As his health deteriorated, he was able to live out the rest of his life with someone who appeared to care for him. Or did she? You’ll need to read SHE by Lamar D. Vine to find out what’s really going on.
SHE could be Lamar D. Vine’s own life hidden between the pages of this novella, as he, too, relocated to Southeast Asia to write. I’m 57, and I also left my Western country to live in Thailand to become a writer. So many of the things he described in the book are real, and I’ve experienced some, although I’ve never met an Em. It was fun wondering how much of what I was reading was fiction and how much was based on something real in his life. Novellas like this are perfect for reading in one sitting, which I did. It’s the kind of page-turner that you have to commit to in order to find out what’s going on. I recommend SHE to everyone who’s ever had a dream of leaving it all behind, or to anyone like me who’s actually done it. Oh, and keep a packet of tissues handy.
