Today more than ever we all need to be reminded of the importance of life?s priceless gifts. Lynne Hinton?s latest novel moves us, enlightens us, and most importantly, reminds us of the power we have to heal each other.
St. Martin's Press
March 2009
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Featuring: Andreas Jay Hackett
240 pages ISBN: 0312347960 EAN: 9780312347963 Hardcover Add to Wish List
An out of sorts librarian finds support and friendship in the most unlikely placeβa new novel from the national bestselling author of Friendship Cake
AndreasΒ Jay Hackett is aΒ university librarian known forΒ her love of keeping things organized. But one summer, sheΒ finds herself falling away from a sense of well being, depressed, βout of order.β Her work doesnβt give her pleasure, her friends worry about her, and her own voice begins to frighten her. Therapy, pills and doctors visits donβt help, so Andreas checks herself into a psychiatric facility.
There, she finds herselfΒ in a room next door to a prison inmate who has also been hospitalized.Β As she talks with her new neighbor, Andreas begins to come out of her despair--ultimately finding the healing she needs throughΒ a friendship that develops in the darkest of circumstances, and despite boundaries of race, gender, education, andΒ age. Β
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