Baggage Claim : A Novel

She's got thirty days and thirty thousand miles to find a husband.According to the women in Montana Moore's family, you're not a lady until you marry and not a woman until you have birthed at least two children. At age thirty-five, Montana is neither and her prospects are meager. Her mother is working on husband number five, and her baby sister, Sheree, has just announced her engagement to a promising future doctor. Pledging to keep herself from being the oldest and the only woman in her entire family never to wed, Montana embarks on a thirty-day, thirty-thousand-mile expedition to charm a potential suitor into becoming her fiance.Whom will she choose? Damon Diesel, a P. Diddy wannabe; Reverend Curtis P. Merewether, pastor of Greater House of Deliverance, Tabernacle of Praise, Worship, and Miracles; pompous attorney-turned-councilman Langston Jefferson Battle III; or Quinton Jamison, a multimillionaire who's twenty years her senior?Outrageously funny...witty and charming,Baggage Claimis a divine literary debut from award-winning playwright David E. Talbert.

David E. Talbert is an NAACP award-winning playwright who has written, directed, and produced eleven blockbuster stage plays nationwide. His plays include Mr. Right Now; His Woman, His Wife; He Say ... She Say ... But What Does God Say; Love on Layaway; The Fabric of a Man; and Love Makes Things Happen. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Lyn Talbert. He currently serves as the artistic director for The Soul Theatre Series. Visit his website at www.davidetalbert.com.