The Lemon Bar Confession: 30 Warm and Gently Funny Short Stories for Seniors Older Adults, in Easy-to-Read Large Print

Carol Whitcomb did not mean to deceive the church bake sale. She meant only to survive it.That is how this collection opens, and it is the sort of trouble the people in these thirty stories tend to find. A man who has owned the same telephone for nineteen years is handed a smartphone and becomes the most quotable person in the family group chat. A garden club is reorganized by a new president with an agenda and matching aprons. A pink lawn flamingo goes missing, and the neighborhood turns out to be hiding something kinder than a crime. A widow returns a library book sixty-four years overdue and finds out why her husband had it.These are warm, humorous stories written to be read at an unhurried pace. The humor comes from character and recognition rather than cruelty, the older people in them are the ones with the wit and the last word, and every story ends somewhere worth arriving. Gentle and uplifting throughout, with no bleak endings and nothing crude.Thirty full-length stories, each around 1,300 words, so there is something to settle into rather than a page and a half. Printed in genuinely large 17-point type on cream paper, with every story starting on its own page and every page numbered, which makes it an easy read at the kitchen table or in a waiting room and a straightforward gift for a parent or grandparent.