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Everything seemed possible in the summer of 1951. Back then Betty Stern was an eighteen-year-old knockout working at her grandparents’ lakeside resort. The "Catskills of the Midwest" was the perfect place for Betty to prepare for bigger things. She’d head to college in New York City. Her career as a fashion editor would flourish. But first, she’d enjoy a wondrous last summer at the beach falling deeply in love with an irresistible college boy and competing in the annual Miss South Haven pageant. On the precipice of a well-planned life, Betty’s future was limitless.

Ein Jahr nach dem Unfalltod seines Vaters beginnt der dreizehn Jahre alte Benny Oh Stimmen zu hören. Es sind die Stimmen der unbelebten Gegenstände in seinem Zuhause – seine Sneakers, eine zerbrochene Weihnachtskugel, ein Blatt welker Salat. Gleichzeitig beginnt seine Mutter Annabelle, immer mehr Dinge zu horten, bis es kaum mehr einen freien Platz auf dem Fußboden oder in den Regalen ihres Hauses gibt. Mutter und Sohn drohen in ihrer Trauer den Halt zu verlieren – bis sie auf ein Buch stoßen, das sie womöglich zu retten imstande ist.

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Whip-smart and compulsively readable. . . both a wildly entertaining adventure story and a meditation on what it means to love your children—fiercely and imperfectly.”—Oprah Daily “Springs alive to explore questions that stump scientists and families, problems of...

A tender and quirky novel about the romantic choices we make from the author of the New York Times Bestsellers and Reese's Book Club Picks, The First Time I Saw Him and The Last Thing He Told Me Emmy Everett is reluctantly heading home to New York for her brother Josh’s wedding. She has spent...