Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
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4/5. Former MLB pitcher temporarily rents a room from a recently-widowed (recently-liberated, really) woman in charming tiny town Maine.
Linda Holmes (NPR Linda Holmes) wrote a book, and it is exactly the book Linda Holmes would write: warm and sharp-eyed and kind and deeply satisfying. This is somewhere on the spectrum between contemporary fiction and romance, if you want to classify it (you can tell they're marketing on the fiction end since they slapped "a novel" on it). It meets in the middle in a story about getting up again when you've been knocked down really hard in the most unfair and inexplicable of ways, and doing the hard work of friendship, and mental illness, and baseball, and tiny town life, and all sorts of things. It has some first novel wobbles – the charmingness is a little bit manufactured, to start – but it gains confidence and poise until it made me genuinely sniffle in the end.
Content notes: Recollections of an abusive relationship.
4/5. Former MLB pitcher temporarily rents a room from a recently-widowed (recently-liberated, really) woman in charming tiny town Maine.
Linda Holmes (NPR Linda Holmes) wrote a book, and it is exactly the book Linda Holmes would write: warm and sharp-eyed and kind and deeply satisfying. This is somewhere on the spectrum between contemporary fiction and romance, if you want to classify it (you can tell they're marketing on the fiction end since they slapped "a novel" on it). It meets in the middle in a story about getting up again when you've been knocked down really hard in the most unfair and inexplicable of ways, and doing the hard work of friendship, and mental illness, and baseball, and tiny town life, and all sorts of things. It has some first novel wobbles – the charmingness is a little bit manufactured, to start – but it gains confidence and poise until it made me genuinely sniffle in the end.
Content notes: Recollections of an abusive relationship.