Interminable Longing Author:Judith Johnson Interminable Longing is a contemporary version of a woman's darkly comic, pain-ridden struggle to reconcile personal desires with family ties — Alice Jones is a 'soccer mom' who, as her son leaves the nest, reminisces about her halcyon gay days in Connecticut twenty-five years before and recalls she "was someone before becoming D... more »avid's mom, Eddie's wife." As her contemporaries crash and burn with easy sex, she harbors a secret obsession for a professional golfer she meets on the tennis court. Although she is spurned, once the wheels are set in motion, Alice sets forth on a personal journey with compassion for those closet to her, yet maintains loyalty to herself, vowing "now or never, to thine own self be true."« less