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Book Club pick! Reading this for a second time. I remember loving it, but I didn’t rate it on here!

“How will my children feel if they think that being seen as a mother wasn’t enough for me? What will they think, knowing I wanted a full life—a life with them and a life in words, too?”

“But here’s something I’ve come to terms with since the divorce: *I* treated my husband’s job as more “real,” more important, than mine, too.”

“So what was the problem? *I* was the problem—my traveling for readings, workshops, conferences. That wasn’t the deal, though I didn’t know we’d had a deal.”

“What would I have done to save my marriage? I would have abandoned myself, and I did, for a time. I would have done it for longer if he’d let me.”

I’m enjoying this book so much! I must read everything by Fredrik Backman.

Just finished this book at Flyleaf Literature & Libations, where my sister made us reservations as a surprise. It’s a bookstore AND cocktail lounge. I feel like I have died and gone to heaven!

This book was a gift from my sister. She really knows me so well! I’m into it.

So good! It had both the feeling of nostalgia and the urgency of happening right now.

The kind of book I can just tell will be good from the first chapter