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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9781594930133
ISBN number: 1594930139
Label: Bella Books
Manufacturer: Bella Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 255
Printing Date: May 30, 2005
Publishing house: Bella Books
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Ninety minutes, twice a day. Five days a week.
Car pool heaven turns into car pool hell when Anthea Rossignole realizes her lover is having an affair with the other woman sharing their daily commute. It seems that Anthea’s successful career as a cost analyst at an oil refinery is the only thing she can really count on these days. Now she’s looking for someone to share the long drive.
Shay Sumoto desperately needs a car pool. Though wildly overqualified, the environmental biologist takes a low-paying job testing well samples to keep body and soul together. The debt from her father’s terminal illness and the loss of the company she and her father owned have left her with no money, no time and no sense of humor.
When Shay and Anthea begin carpooling together, they find that very first impressions of each other don’t bode well, and second impressions don’t improve their chemistry much. But when Shay uncovers alarming test results in her work — information that could cost both of them their jobs — Anthea is the only person she trusts for advice. Can two very different women find common ground?
It's Never an Easy Commute on the Freeway of Love.
Originally published by Naiad Press
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I am an avid reader of lesbian fiction ,book seller and writer. Reading Karin Kallmakers books are always a delight. I am completing the reading her entire body of work ,as her writing have been mastered as a wonderful story teller.This book is as varied as all of her different plots and enjoyable characters. I enjoyed Carpool the book kept me waiting for the final resolution I recommend this highly.
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...how enjoyable this book is until I picked it up and re-read it recently. I have always been a fan of Kallmaker's, and this particular novel ranks among those that I would pass along to my friends. (In fact, it's in a bag waiting to be picked up by a friend now.)
The characters were well developed and interesting, the plot was never tiresome, and the romance tugged at your heartstrings in all the right ways.
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This novel was worth reading if only for the very first chapter. By the end of the chapter you are totally invested in the two main characters and feel you want to meet them as real people. The scene where Anthea confronts Lois is simply and amazingly real. I really admire the characters and how they deal with the hardships and delights that life throws at them. It also has the best written gay males (friends of the two main characters) in any lesbian romance I have read.
I love how the characters confront a workplace bigot - it was really well written (I just wish I was there to see it and hope other authors include a dose of such realism when appropriate).
The love scenes are delectable and so well written you wish the novel was longer. They advance the story perfectly and illustrate the characters as dialogue never can. Liberally laced thoughout the novel is delightful humor. The scene illustrating the need for good kitchen hygiene will never be forgotten.
This novel is a keeper you will read again
I can't wait to read the short story sequel in the author's anthology 'Frosting On The Cake'
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This book is riddled with racial slurs, sexism, and homophobia. These attitudes are not a reflection on Kallmaker, but are necessary to tell this compelling story of interracial lesbian love.
Anthea Rossignole works in the accounting department at an oil refinery. She comes from old money and is financially secure. However, she subjects herself daily to a sexist, condescending, homophobic boss who doesn't have a clue. The worst part is the entire company seems to be populated with men just like her boss. To top things off, Anthea's long-time live-in girlfriend has an affair with another woman in their car pool. Anthea breaks things off, kicks her lover out, and looks for a new car pool.
Shay Sumoto, an Asian-American who has just lost her father to lung cancer, has also lost her only source of income as a geologist and is knee deep in debt from his hospital bills. She goes against everything she believes in and takes a job working for the refinery. It is there that she meets the seemingly-pretentious Anthea.
After breaking through their barriers, these two women discover new love and begin to work through their painful pasts. In the meantime, Anthea helps Shay uncover and report illegal activities by their employer. They do this not out of revenge for their treatment, but because they want to do the right thing.
This book was very first published in 1993. It amazes me that these attitudes still existed then. It amazes me even more that they still exist yesterday - although they generally are hidden and denied in polite society. Read this book, get angry, fall in love with Shay and Anthea, become a bigger Kallmaker fan.
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This is one of the last of Karin Kallmaker's early books that I've been longing to read, and finally it has been reprinted. I never thought I would find a story set in part on an oil refinery in any way absorbing, but as usual I went along for the ride in Car Pool and the journey was well worth all the shifts in speed along the way.
Anthea is wealthy but still working. Shay, on the other hand, like most of us, must work. She needs two jobs just to keep it together. Each of them treats the other like a stereotype, but that car pool means they slowly have to get to know more than what they see on the surface. That they are both lesbians comes as a surprise to each woman, because of the stereotypes they have been entertaining.
Once Anthea sees outside the closet, and once Shay gets over some of the bitterness of her father's death, they find life a whole lot easier, and enjoying each other's company more and more. Their two gay male friends provide a wonderful counterpoint to the slow pace Anthea and Shay take.
There is a mystery on the oil refinery - a setting that is wonderfully conveyed. I never want to see one for myself now! I like how the women work together to try to get all the dirt they can and how Shay is finally able to prove wrongdoing. The final work scene with Anthea and her racist, homophobic boss is incredibly SATISFYING.
Readers who are just now discovering this early work should treat themselves to the follow up story in Frosting on the Cake about Anthea and Shay, Harold and Adrian, trying to become a very modern 21st century family. It's hilarious *and* heartwarming.
My only regret in devouring this book the moment it arrived is that I am now have so few Karin Kallmaker books left to read!
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