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Jonathan Evison
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
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Influences
Charles Dickens and beer.
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October 2007
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The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
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2012
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41 editions
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Lawn Boy
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2018
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17 editions
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This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!
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2015
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27 editions
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The Heart of Winter
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2025
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Again and Again
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2023
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Small World
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2022
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West of Here
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2011
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30 editions
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Legends of the North Cascades
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2021
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All About Lulu
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2008
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A vast frontier tale set in the untamed wilderness of the Olympic Mountains, West of Here connects a multitude of scrappy characters living in two...
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interesting presumptions, here. the fact is, ruth's diagnosis, decision surgery, and recovery were all based EXACTLY on my 87 year-old mother's experi
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"Most of us feel powerless. Motivated but powerless. Entertained but powerless. Informed but powerless. Fleetingly content, most of the time broke, sometimes hopeful, but ultimately powerless…just remember: you’re bigger than that. Like the man said: "
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interesting, what did you find inaccurate? Ruth's cancer, from diagnosis through recovery is based exactly on my 87 year-old mom's experience, which i
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whoa!...that paris scene has maybe my favorite moment in the book, when Abe comes full circle on redeeming himself
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oh man, indeed, the berlin wall reference has been corrected for the 2nd and third print runs! so embarrassed that made it through editorial!!!
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fyi, ruth's surgery, radiation, etc were all based on my 87yo mom's experience . . . i was there beside her throughout it . . .
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"This book flows beautifully through a couples life journey. So many relatable topics and feelings.
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"The Heart of Winter by Jonathan Evison is the story of Abe, who is turning 90. He and his wife Ruth have been together since college and have three children. They are now struggling through Ruth’s cancer treatment, and the novel brings us through all"
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“Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.”
― The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
― The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
“I'll never stop caring. But the thing about caring is, it's inconvenient. Sometimes you've got to give when it makes no sense to at all. Sometimes you've got to give until it hurts.”
― The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
― The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
“I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.”
― The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
― The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
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“First, I'm going to give you all the Copperfield crap, and I'm not going to apologize for any of it, not one paragraph, so if you're not interested in how I came to see the future, or how I came to understand that the biggest truth in my life was a lie, or, for that matter, how I parlayed my distaste for hot dogs into an '84 RX-7 and a new self-concept, do us both a favor, and just stop now.”
― All About Lulu
― All About Lulu
“We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters, and by people we don't remember. We are haunted by otherness, by the path not taken, by the life unlived. We are haunted by the changing winds and the ebbing tides of history. And even as our own flame burns brightest, we are haunted by the embers of the first dying fire. But mostly, said Lord Jim, we are haunted by ourselves.”
― West of Here
― West of Here
“Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?”
― West of Here
― West of Here
“A man’s destiny is not in the eyes of others. It’s in his own. And that, my young friend, is as good as any bank note.”
― West of Here
― West of Here
“He threw himself headlong at a job as if were he to stop the job would throw itself headlong back at him.”
― West of Here
― West of Here
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May 19, 2009 12:25PM
Congrats on the recent book deal, man. Maybe I'll see you in Seattle in July. I'll be at Elliott Bay on July 11th for Portland Noir.
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I'm sure you already saw the Author Blogs announcement and that you're writing one... right now!
Thanks for the invite.I like your constellation of books here...I can tell you're in a good universe...
I ordered Lulu today at a bookstore in NH...can't wait to read it!
