TO BE WHERE YOU ARE by Jan Karon

TO BE WHERE YOU ARE by Jan Karon is the fourteenth book in the Mitford Years series and is a Christian contemporary fiction novel.

I have read the Mitford Years series for several years and each book seems to outshine the previous novel. You will fall in love with the people and the town as you read a story about family, love, hardships, faith, hope, and sacrifice.

Karon has created a realistic town with people that are so developed with detailed pasts and lifelike drama or situations. The setting is that of a perfect watercolor painted picture of a small Christian town where everybody knows each other. Dooley and Lace have grown up throughout the series and now have a child of their own. Father Tim and Cynthia are two characters that seem to move around visiting all the other characters from the previous novels. What a wonderful series that is captivated and romantic.

The story starts around the time when the town is getting ready for all the tourists who love looking at the leaves and ends right after Christmas making this a great holiday read. You will fall in love with this small little town and the people who call this place home. As you read one trial after the next that Dooley and Lace's vet practice encounters you will feel a wide range of emotions and some all at once. The kind of trials or hardships where everything that can go wrong does go wrong but throughout it all the couple's faith will help them make the best of things and overcome. A real feel good read and I cannot wait to read the next book in this series.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon
returns with the fourteenth novel in the beloved Mitford
series, featuring three generations of Kavanaghs.

After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of
retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a
steady job to prove himself. Then he's given one. As for
what it proves, heaven only knows.

Millions of Karon fans will be thrilled that it’s life as
usual in the wildly popular Mitford series: A beloved town
character lands a front-page obituary, but who was it,
exactly, who died? And what about the former mayor, born the
year Lindbergh landed in Paris, who’s still running for
office? All this, of course, is but a feather on the wind
compared to Muse editor J.C. Hogan’s desperate
attempts to find a cure for his marital woes. Will it be
high-def TV or his pork chop marinade?

In fiction, as in real life, there are no guarantees.

Twenty minutes from Mitford at Meadowgate Farm, newlyweds
Dooley and Lace Kavanagh face a crisis that devastates their
bank account and impacts their family vet practice.

But there is still a lot to celebrate, as their adopted son,
Jack, looks forward to the most important day of his
life—with great cooking, country music, and lots of people
who love him. Happily, it will also be a day when the
terrible wound in Dooley’s biological family begins to heal
because of a game—let’s just call it a miracle—that breaks
all the rules.

In To Be Where You Are, Jan Karon weaves together the
richly comic and compelling lives of two Kavanagh families,
and a cast of characters that readers around the world now
love like kin.