life change events

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One summer

2011
Jack, terminally ill, is helpless when his wife Lizzie is killed in a car accident and his three children separated, sent to live with family members across the country, but a miraculous turn of events puts Jack on the road to recovery and he sets out to put his family back together over the course of a summer spent at Lizzie's childhood home in South Carolina.

Still life with bread crumbs

a novel
2014
Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.

Joyland

2013
In a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

Left neglected

a novel
2011
Consulting firm vice president and mother of three Sarah Nickerson is forced to give up some control over her life when she is in a car accident and suffers a traumatic brain injury, and, as she tries to regain her independence, she also realizes that happiness and success may not be about having the perfect career and a lot of money.

The Christmas list

2009
Successful businessman James Kier is shocked to see his obituary in the local paper and devastated at the harsh comments left by those who knew him, but instead of getting angry, James is inspired to turn over a new leaf, and as he looks back on his life and tries to make amends to the people he has hurt the most, he learns the true meaning of Christmas and the real price of love and family.

The good life

2006
When a tragedy strikes the town of TriBeCa, the residents must forget their own tragedies and struggles and band together to save one another and their devastated hometown.

The memory of running

2004
After his parents are killed in an auto accident and he also learns of his sister's death in Los Angeles, Smithy Ide, overweight and friendless, embarks upon a transcontinental bicycle ride to claim his sister's body and rediscovers what it means to live.

Nights of rain and stars

2004
In a small Greek island village, a group of travelers from around the world and the local residents they encounter are brought together when tragedy strikes.

The sugar queen

2008
Twenty-seven-year-old Josey Cirrini finds her uneventful life turned upside down when Della Lee Baker shows up in Josey's secret hideaway and starts to challenge Josey to change her life and discover the world beyond her sheltered home.

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