Description

A daily diet of the unexpected. A cast of colorful characters. Pursuit of lifelong dreams. These are the themes of such best-selling stranger in a strange land recountings as "A Year in Provence", "Under the Tuscan Sun" and "Don't Stop the Carnival". They are also the threads of "No Expectations, Mon!", my own telling of the three-year challenge experienced by a Type A female business executive constructing a "dream home" on the Caribbean island of Anguilla.

Starting with the spontaneous purchase of a half-acre of land and a half-built dwelling and ending with the move-in day, this book chronicles the highs and lows of a mid-life adventure that included two interior floods, an infestation of termites, a builder named Rooster and a herd of thirteen stubborn goats.

The book also describes how I used my love of cooking to cope with the never-ending stress, and it incorporates some of the recipes that were born out of the experience.