Foreign Friends

Ashley Hall, a rich kid from Connecticut, was always an oddball with an irreverent sense of humor. Now, at 33, she's fed up with everything and everyone. Trapped in an engagement to a reactionary sexist moron and working at a dead-end job in a loony bin, she's itching to bust out of her conformist life in every way.

But how does the voice on the phone know that? A mysterious late-night call leads Ashley to unexpected involvement with Central American revolutionaries. One thing leads to another and all hell—as well as outrageous comedy—breaks loose.

Ashley and the guerrillas are both fighting for their lives, their dignity, and their freedom. Can they help each other toward victory?

Lia Giannakis is a first-generation Greek-American who lived in New York City for ten years, where she worked in publishing. As a journalist, in 1984 she traveled to Nicaragua to cover the Sandinista revolution. Passionate about social justice and systemic change, she considers it part of her mission in life to make people laugh. Lia believes that finding humor in everyday events helps keep one's sanity in a world gone mad.