Putnam
September 2014
On Sale: September 9, 2014
Featuring: Scott Coffman; Mara Nichols
ISBN: 039916734X EAN: 9780399167348 Kindle: B00INIQUNW Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Destined to be a book club favorite, a heart-wrenching debut
about two people who must decide how much they’re willing to
sacrifice for love.
Mara Nichols is a successful lawyer, devoted wife, and
adoptive mother who has received a life-shattering
diagnosis. Scott Coffman, a middle school teacher, has been
fostering an eight-year-old boy while the boy’s mother
serves a jail sentence. Scott and Mara both have five days
left until they must say good-bye to the ones they love the
most.
Through their stories, Julie Lawson Timmer explores the
individual limits of human endurance and the power of
relationships, and shows that sometimes loving someone means
holding on, and sometimes it means letting go.