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by Virginia Evans
Sybil Van Antwerp, a retired lawyer in her seventies, has written letters all her life: to her brother, her friends, the authors she admires and the people who have wronged her. Told entirely through that correspondence, her story slowly reveals the grief she has never spoken of. A quiet, deeply moving novel about the written word and making peace late in life.
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Literary
Allen Levi
A mysterious traveler named Theo drifts into a small Georgia town and quietly changes the people who take him in. Allen Levi's debut is unhurried and gentle — a meditation on friendship, grief, and grace with no villain to speak of, just ordinary kindness given room to matter.
Contemporary
Katie Powner
Eighteen-year-old Bri Marshall loses her newborn son, Providence, to foster care while she fights an addiction she cannot yet beat. Laura Gambler, thirty-nine and already a mother of three, takes the baby in. Told from both women's sides, it is a tender story about what it really means to be someone's mother.
Contemporary
Johanna Rojas Vann
After a loss that upends her life, Sandra leaves New York for East Nashville, hoping distance will quiet her grief. Next door lives Mark, a widowed retired pastor who spends his days in his garden. Their unlikely friendship becomes a slow, gentle path back toward hope.
