MORNINGS ON MAIN is about connecting with people and the symbolism of the story is awe inspiring. My granddaughter taught me that awesome means big. So I am going to use awesome as the best descriptive word I can think of for MORNINGS ON MAIN by Jodi Thomas.

People are important. Having people that care and show it are necessary to having a good life. No one knows that better than Jillian, but she does not know that from the point of experience. No, Jillian's life has been about having no one who cared about or for her.

Left with her vagabond father since birth, Jillian truly lived a lonely nomadic life. Her father taught her odd survival skills, but never taught her how to connect or have feelings with people. Jillian herself became nomadic, moving from one place to another, a stranger and visitor to many places but belonging nowhere.

Then Jillian winds up in Laurel Springs where she is exposed to an entirely different set of norms. Small town ones. Everyone knows everyone and is surprisingly accepting of Jillian, a stranger. Who would ever think that Jillian would begin to really like this place. So very different than any other she has visited or traveled through. In Laurel Springs, Jillian was not anonymous or alone. She was included even though she kept her carefully constructed boundaries intact.

Jillian wasn't the only one whose world was somewhat tilting on its axis. Life in Laurel Springs was going through an aging and engaging change. Relationships were blossoming and maturing. Folks were adjusting to their new normal. And Connor Larady's world was less dark and demanding with Jillian filling a void he hadn't really acknowledged.

MORNINGS ON MAIN is a lovely tale that touches your heart at every moment. Jodi Thomas writes from her heart as any of her fans would attest to. MORNINGS ON MAIN has everything you could want in a story and then some.

MORNINGS ON MAIN is about life's journey. Some travel through life content and settled in one place -- others roam seemingly searching for what no one really knows. Jillian is traveling through her life looking for something, some place, someone. In MORNINGS ON MAIN we aren't really certain just what her travels accomplish, but certain that they mean something to her. She is following in her father's footsteps in many ways, but in this story by Jodi Thomas we can only hope her travels end with happiness and love and discovery of what has been missing in her life. MORNINGS ON MAIN by Jodi Thomas is a gorgeous heartwarming story that brings these folk to life.