Trail of the Dove How a Mother and Her Grown Son Learned to Love Each Other on a Cross-Country Motorcycle Journey

by Friedman, Dorothy

• ISBN13: 9781571780898
• ISBN10: 1571780890
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Council Oak Books

Summary

There's been a chill between Dorothy Friedman and her youngest son David for years, since his then girlfriend treated her badly on a much-anticipated visit to his backwoods home in British Columbia. But Dorothy leaps at the chance to ride along behind her son from her home in LA to a huge BMW motorcycle rally in South Dakota and on to Canada, with its opportunity for renewed closeness.
It's not a cakewalk: Dorothy collapses from the scorching desert heat on day one, fights with her son over his driving, love-life, and diet and rides through days of bruising wind and rain. The rally itself is a muddy, smelly, pot-bellied biker's Woodstock; the other women in attendance are chiefly biker molls or tube-topped nymphets.
In writing that is honest and wistful by turns emotionally raw and wryly funny, Dorothy brings us vividly along on her big adventure. For her, this voyage down snaking backroads, past Rushmore and over the Continental Divide, is a kind of dream journey, as memories of her Brooklyn childhood and her loving partnership with her late husband wash over her. The rigors of the road also bring to the boiling point her long-simmering resentments with life, fate and her son in particular.