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Maryann McFadden
Publisher: Hyperion
Pub. Date: June 10, 2008
336pp
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After more than a dozen moves
in twenty-five years of marriage, Joanna Harrison is lonely and tired of being
a corporate wife. Her children are grown
and gone, her husband is married more to his job than to her, and now they're
about to pack up once more. Frightened at the thought of having to start all
over again, Joanna commits the first irresponsible act of her life. She runs away to Pawleys
Island, South Carolina, a place she's been to just once before.
She finds a job as a live-in
companion to Grace Finelli, a widow who has come to
the island to fulfill a girlhood dream. Together,
the two women embark on the most difficult journey of their lives. Joanna struggles for independence, roots, and
a future of her own, as her family tugs at her from afar. Grace, having chosen to live the remainder of
her life for herself, knows she may never see her children again.
In the midst of the preceding
adventure is Paul Harrison's story. He
loses his wife, his job, and everything that defines him as a man. He takes off
on his own journey out west, searching for the answers to all that has gone
wrong in his life. One thing remains
constant - He wants his wife back. Joanna,
however, is moving farther away from her old life as she joins a group
dedicated to rescuing endangered loggerhead turtles, led by a charismatic
fisherman unlike anyone she's ever met.
The Richest Season is
basically the story of three people. Each
chapter switches between the three main characters - Joanna, her husband Paul,
and Grace, the elderly woman who Joanna lives with. Surprisingly I found myself liking Paul’s
chapters the most. I think because of
the transformation he made. The chapters
about Grace are heart wrenching in the end. And truthfully, I had a hard time liking
Joanna in the beginning, but I found myself starting to relate to her towards
the end. I found the premise of a wife
just getting up and escaping her life, and scoring a house on the beach highly
unlikely, but that is why we have books. We have all felt that way at one point or
another. And to top it off, Joanna has a
romance with a hot and caring neighbor, also with a house on the beach! Despite
the premise, this is the perfect summer escape book (pardon the pun).
Book Room Grade
B
Review Posted: July 1, 2008
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