Tuesday’s Mah Jongg Is More Than a Game
In the ancient Chinese game of mah jongg, each player must make the most of the tiles they’ve been given. It’s the same in the game of life.
When Roseann is called away to a family emergency, her mah jongg pals bring in a new player, Grace. Roseann returns with her grandson, committed to raising a child again—this time as a widow with serious health issues. Marlene, a dutiful but repressed wife, is dealing with a dying mother and fractious father; Susan, a twice-divorced new grandmother, struggles with the realities of aging and fading beauty amid the modern dating scene; Barbara, a successful businesswoman, is married to a manipulative philanderer; and Grace, a social worker, becomes the voice of reason—until her loyalties are tested.
Will these friends, with ties both old and new, strengthen their bonds as they support each other through life’s challenges? Or will the group fracture, leaving them scattered like mah jongg tiles from an overturned table?
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Marsha Temlock is the author of Your Child’s Divorce: What to Expect . . . What You Can Do and the YA novel, The Exile. She has appeared on the Today Show and was featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Miami Herald, and other major publications, and interviewed on dozens of radio talk shows. She holds a master of arts in English from NYU and a master of arts in organizational psychology from Columbia University. She taught literature and writing at Fairfield University, Sacred Heart University, and Norwalk Community College. Her interests include theater, literature, travel, and (of course) mah jongg.
