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A tender and heartwarming novel that explores the trials of losing what matters most - and how theres always more than we can imagine left to find - from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away and Things You Save in a FireNow a major motion picture starring Leslie Bibb and Josh Duhamel * "A sweet tale about creating the family you need." - People Dear Libby, It occurs to me that you and your two children have been living with your mother for - Dear Lord! - two whole years, and Im writing to see if youd like to be rescued. The letter comes out of the blue, and just in time for Libby Moran, who - after the sudden death of her husband, Danny - went to stay with her hypercritical mother. Now her crazy Aunt Jean has offered Libby an escape: a job and a place to live on her farm in the Texas Hill Country. Before she can talk herself out of it, Libby is packing the minivan, grabbing the kids, and hitting the road. Life on Aunt Jeans goat farm is both more wonderful and more mysterious than Libby could have imagined. Beyond the animals and the strenuous work, there is quiet - deep, country quiet. But there is also a shaggy, gruff (though purportedly handsome, under all that hair) farm manager with a tragic home life, a formerly famous feed-store clerk who claims she can contact Danny "on the other side," and the eccentric aunt Libby never really knew but who turns out to be exactly what shes been looking for. And despite everything shes lost, Libby soon realizes how much more shes found. She hasnt just traded one kind of crazy for another: She may actually have found the place to bring her little family - and herself - back to life.
About the Author
Katherine Center's new novel is WHAT YOU WISH FOR. She's the author of How to Walk Away and Things You Save in a Fire--both instant New York Times bestsellers--as well as The Lost Husband (now a movie starring Josh Duhamel) , and five other bittersweet comic novels. She writes laugh-and-cry books about how life knocks us down--and how we get back up. Katherine has been compared to both Nora Ephron and Jane Austen, and the Dallas Morning News calls her stories, "satisfying in the most soul-nourishing way." Her books have made countless Best-Of lists, including Amazon's Top 100 Books of 2019, ' Best Books of the Year 2019, BookBub's Best-Loved Books of 2019, the Indie Next Great Reads List, SheReads' Best Women's Fiction 2019, BookList's Top Ten Women's Fiction, and many, many more. Katherine lives in her hometown of Houston, Texas, with her husband, two kids, and their fluffy-but-fierce dog.
