Can lighting really strike twice? Just ask Eve whose husband walks out on her in the middle of a garage sale. Eve's beloved Ivan died thirteen years ago in an automobile accident. Her charming boyish Chuck has taken a different exit out of her life: hopping into his car in the middle of a garage sale with no forewarning and departing their formerly happy upstate New York home for points unknown. Now Eve's a boat adrift subsisting on a heartbreak diet of rue disappointment and woe-left alone to care for Ivan's brilliant teenaged son Marcus and Chuck's precocious pragmatic nine-year-old daughter Noni while contending with Charlotte Eve's acerbic mother who's come north to "help" but hinders instead. But life ultimately must go on with its highs and lows its traumas and holidays and well-meaning if eccentric friends. A house and a heart in disrepair are painful burdens for a passionate woman who's still in her prime. And while learning to cope with the large and small tragedies that each passing day brings Eve might end up discovering that she's gained much more than she's lost. A poignant lovely funny and ultimately uplifting story of love family and survival Liz Rosenberg's Home Repair is an unforgettable introduction to a lyrical wise and wonderfully vibrant new literary voice.
