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Things You Save in a Fire, August 2019
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How to Walk Away, July 2019
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How to Walk Away, May 2018
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Happiness for Beginners, March 2015
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The Lost Husband, May 2013
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Get Lucky, April 2010
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Everyone Is Beautiful: A Novel, February 2009
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The Bright Side of Disaster, July 2007
Hardcover

THE BRIGHT SIDE OF DISASTER
By: Katherine Center

Ballantine
July 2007
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Featuring: Jenny Harris
256 pages
ISBN: 1400066379
EAN: 9781400066377
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction

Jenny Harris always expected that she’d fall in love, get married, and have a baby–in that order. Now, very pregnant and not quite married, she actually doesn’t mind that she and her live-in fiancé, Dean, accidentally started their family a little earlier than planned; she’s happy to have so much to look forward to. But Dean–whom Jenny loves enough to overlook his bad facial hair, his smoking habit, and his total commitment to a cheesy cover band–is acting distant, and not in a pre-wedding-jitters kind of way. The night he runs out for cigarettes and just doesn’t come back, he demotes himself from future husband to sperm donor.

And the very next day, Jenny goes into labor.

In the months that follow, Jenny plunges into a life she never anticipated: single motherhood. At least with the sleep deprivation, sore boobs, and fits of crying (both hers and the baby’s), there’s not much time to dwell on her broken heart. And things start looking up. She learns how to do everything one-handed, makes friends in a mommy group, and even manages to give dating tips to her sweet, clueless father–who’s trying to court her sassy mother again, fifteen years after their divorce. She also gets to know a handsome, helpful neighbor–with a knack for soothing babies–who invites her out dancing. But Dean is never far from Jenny’s thoughts or, it turns out, her doorstep, and in the end Jenny must choose between the old life she thought she wanted and the new life she’s been lucky to find.