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Avon
January 2009
On Sale: January 1, 2009
448 pages
ISBN: 0061673390
EAN: 9780061673399
Kindle: B001NLKUZU
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
Four months after her husband’s death, Janie LaMarche
remains undone by grief and anger. Her mourning is
disrupted, however, by the unexpected arrival of a builder
with a contract to add a porch onto her house. Stunned,
Janie realizes the porch was meant to be a surprise from
her husband—now his last gift to her. As construction
begins, Janie clings to the familiar outposts of her
sorrow—mothering her two small children with fierce
protectiveness, avoiding friends and family, and stewing
in a rage she can’t release. Yet Janie’s isolation is
breached by a cast of unlikely interventionists: her
ipecac-toting aunt; her bossy neighbor; her muffin-bearing
cousin; and even Tug, the contractor with a private grief
all his own. As the porch takes shape, Janie discovers
that the unknowable terrain of the future is best
navigated with the help of others—even those we least
expect to call on, much less learn to love.
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