Five days left / Julie Lawson Timmer.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 344 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 039916734X
- 9780399167348
- 5 days left
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | Fiction | Timmer Julie | Available | 33111007615293 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"A beautifully drawn study of what is at risk when you lose control of your own life. Unique, gripping, and viscerally moving--this impressive debut novel heralds the arrival of an extremely talented writer." --Jodi Picoult, New York Times --bestselling author of Leaving Time
Destined to be a book club favorite, a heart-wrenching debut about two people who must decide how much they're willing to sacrifice for love.
Mara Nichols is a successful lawyer, devoted wife, and adoptive mother who has received a life-shattering diagnosis. Scott Coffman, a middle school teacher, has been fostering an eight-year-old boy while the boy's mother serves a jail sentence. Scott and Mara both have five days left until they must say good-bye to the ones they love the most.
Through their stories, Julie Lawson Timmer explores the individual limits of human endurance and the power of relationships, and shows that sometimes loving someone means holding on, and sometimes it means letting go.
Mara Nichols, a terminally ill career woman, wife, and mother, and Scott Coffman, a middle-school teacher whose eight-year-old foster son is about to return to his former inmate mother, traverse the last five days they have to say goodbye to their loved ones.