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| Plot Summary of Layover |
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"Claire Newbold is a woman dealing with a lot of problems and trying to fend off a mental breakdown. Her husband, Ken, cheated on her, she lost a child, and is desperate to conceive again. Her solution is to run away, jumping from one flight to another all over the country. She sneaks into hotels without paying and spends most of her time swimming in the hotel pool. It is in one of these pools that she meets Zach, a teenager more than a decade younger than she. Claire seduces him and hopes to have gotten pregnant from the encounter. She doesn't stay too long at any hotel, not giving her husband the chance to track her down. But after a while, she is tired of running, and ponders the idea of going home. "
Cassie, Resident Scholar
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Our unique search engine provides a wealth of detail about books by breaking them down into many different literary elements, all of which are searchable (click here).
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- present (2000-2010)
Romance/Romance Problems
Yes
Kind of romance:
- playing footsy while inconveniently married
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Pregnancy/Child rearing
Yes
Major part of story:
- can't get pregnant
Lover is
- much younger/older
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- natural phenomena
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 3 (some)
United States
Yes
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- actual description of hetero sex
Unusual Style:
- a lot of stream of consciousness
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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