![]() ![]() Extending friendship and kindness, as well as introductions around the local café, Jack assumes a grandfatherly role. ![]() The Taylors are new to Anthem, and Jack soon discovers that Charlie and his mom, Claire, are struggling to fit in, even as Charlie’s dad, Dan, is thriving in his new job. When ten-year-old Charlie Taylor arrives at Jack’s workshop shortly thereafter, he’s not the first kid in town to need help with a flat tire, and Jack gladly makes the repair to his bike. But Jack is a stickler for honesty, and Lib’s long-dormant secret threatens to unravel their lives. Married nearly three decades but living in separate houses (to the confusion but acceptance of their neighbors), they enjoy an ease and comfort together in small-town Anthem, Wisconsin. Fiercely independent, Lib has never revealed her son’s existence-or her previous marriage-to her husband, Jack. ![]() One summer evening, Lib Hanson is confronted by her painful past when Matt Marlow, the forty-year-old son she abandoned as an infant, shows up on her porch. In a family built on honesty, when does a secret become a lie? Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist and best-selling author of The Devil’s Highway and The House of Broken Angels But Maggie Ginsberg has written that book. ![]() “It’s a rare experience to feel gratitude for a book’s pleasures on nearly every page. ![]()
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