I thought you said this would work : a novel

I thought you said this would work A novel

Ann Wertz Garvin

Book - 2021

"Widowed Samantha Arias hasn't spoken to Holly Dunfee in forever. It's for the best. Samantha prefers to avoid conflict. The blisteringly honest Holly craves it. What they still have in common puts them both back on speed dial: a mutual love for Katie, their best friend of twenty-five years, now hospitalized with cancer and needing one little errand from her old college roomies. It's simple: travel cross-country together, steal her loathsome ex-husband's VW camper, find Katie's diabetic Great Pyrenees at a Utah rescue, and drive him back home to Wisconsin. If it'll make Katie happy, no favor is too big (one hundred pounds), too daunting (two thousand miles), or too illegal (ish), even when a boho D-list ce...lebrity hitches a ride and drives the road trip in fresh directions. Samantha and Holly are following every new turn--toward second chances, unexpected romance, and self-discovery--and finally blowing the dust off the secret that broke their friendship. On the open road, they'll try to put it back together--for themselves, and especially for the love of Katie"--FantasticFiction.com.

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Subjects
Female friendship > Fiction.
Cancer > Patients > Fiction.
Road fiction.
Genres
Road fiction
Published
Seattle, Washington : Lake Union Publishing [2021]
Language
English
Main Author
Ann Wertz Garvin (author)
Physical Description
290 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781542022330
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Review by Booklist Review

As college roommates, Samantha, Katie, and Holly were inseparable. But after graduation, Holly and Samantha's friendship faded away. Katie became the middleman, staying in touch with both women but never sure what triggered their falling out. When Katie lands in the hospital with a suspected cancer recurrence, Holly and Samantha are in the same room for the first time in years, launching a rebuilding of a friendship they thought was long forgotten. With the help of a road trip, one large dog, and a D-list celebrity, Holly and Samantha confront what went wrong so long ago, and learn more than they expected about themselves. A charming exploration of female friendship and cancer's uncanny ability to put perceived slights into perspective, Garvin's (I Like You Just Fine When You're Not Around, 2016) latest novel will delight fans of Anna Hope's Expectation (2020) and Julie Valerie's Holly Banks Full of Angst (2019). A testament to the power of one's own voice and the mistruths in the stories we tell ourselves, and an introspective, heartwarming, and witty farce.

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