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Thank you Bibliolifestyle and William Morrow Books for this gifted copy.

The weekend is almost here! It’s been a crazy week full of work, travel and baseball. Web had his very first game as the head coach of our local PeeWee and Midget team. I got to be assistant coach and keep the book. It was so fun to see him out there in that leadership position and the kids had such a good night!

Today I’m at home playing catch-up around the house and maybe sneaking in some poolside reading.

Today’s cookies and currently reading is 𝗘𝘀𝗺𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆. This is the book I’m hoping to sneak to the pool with today. It looks like the perfect family drama to loose yourself in.

𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: Esme Cahill thinks she has failed spectacularly: fired from her New York City publishing job, divorced from her husband, and possessing little more than a broken-down car and a pile of unfinished manuscripts, she drives home to Asheville at the request of her late grandmother, Adele, who had begged her, just before she died, to return to the place she grew up.

There she discovers the once-charming lakeside retreat run by her family is sliding toward financial ruin, so with the help of her grandfather, George; estranged mother, Robyn; and a travelling chef Dawes (maker of the world’s best grilled cheese sandwich) they set to work. In the attic, Esme unearths a trove of museum-worthy art quilts, sewn by Adele. Piecing together the inspiration behind them, Esme discovers a forgotten chapter in her family history and her grandmother’s untold story, that of a gifted artist who never received her due.

This is an always-emotional, sometimes humorous, very human novel of what it means to be family—the ties that bind us together and the unintentional hurts that can rend us apart. And, along the way, Esme learns that failure can be the first step toward the life you’re meant to find.

💬𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐞(𝐬) 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟𝐟?

AOTD: All of them