02617cam a2200409 i 4500 2438513734 TxAuBib 20250718120000.0 241016s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2025050605 9781668065457 HRD 28.99 1668065452 HRD 28.99 (OCoLC)1460929276 TxAuBib rda Flahive, Grace, author. Palm Meridian [BOOK] : a novel / Grace Flahive. First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. New York : Avid Reader Press, 2025. 244 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "It's 2067 and Florida is partially underwater, but even that can't bring down the residents of Palm Meridian Retirement Resort, a utopian home for queer women who want to revel in their twilight years. Inside, Hula-Hoopers shimmy across the grass, fiercely competitive book clubs nearly come to blows, and the roller-ski team races up and down the winding paths. Everywhere you look, these women are living large. Hannah Cardin has spent ten happy years under these tropical, technicolor skies, but after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis, she has decided that tomorrow morning she will close her eyes for the very last time. Tonight, however, Hannah and her raucous band of friends are throwing one hell of an end-of-life party. And with less than twenty-four hours left, Hannah is holding out for one final, impossible thing... Amongst the guest list is Sophie, the love of Hannah's life. They haven't spoken since their devastating breakup over forty years ago, but today, Hannah is hoping for the chance to give her greatest love one last try. As Hannah anxiously awaits Sophie's arrival, her mind casts back over the highs and lows of her kaleidoscopic life. But when a shocking secret from the past is revealed, Hannah must reconsider if she can say goodbye after all". 20250718. Older lesbians Fiction. Terminally ill Fiction. Retirement communities Fiction. Retirement communities Florida Fiction. Female friendship Fiction. Space and time Fiction. Women-women relationships Fiction. LGBTQIA+ Fiction. Lesbians Fiction. Florida Fiction. Lesbian fiction. Psychological fiction.