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Can lighting really strike twice? Just ask Eve, whose husband walks out on her in the middle of a garage sale. Eve's beloved Ivan died thirteen years ago in an automobile accident. Her charming, boyish Chuck has taken a different exit out of her life: hopping into his car in the middle of a garage sale with no forewarning and departing their formerly happy upstate New York home for points unknown. Now Eve's a boat adrift, subsisting on a heartbreak diet of rue, disappointment, and woe-left alone to care for Ivan's brilliant teenaged son, Marcus, and Chuck's precocious, pragmatic nine-year-old daughter, Noni, while contending with Charlotte, Eve's acerbic mother, who's come north to "help" but hinders instead. But life ultimately must go on, with its highs and lows, its traumas and holidays, and well-meaning, if eccentric, friends. A house and a heart in disrepair are painful burdens for a passionate woman who's still in her prime. And while learning to cope with the large and small tragedies that each passing day brings, Eve might end up discovering that she's gained much more than she's lost. A poignant, lovely, funny, and ultimately uplifting story of love, family, and survival, Liz Rosenberg's Home Repair is an unforgettable introduction to a lyrical, wise, and wonderfully vibrant new literary voice.

Summary: Fantastic Book!

Rating: 5

Home Repair, Liz Rosenberg's novel, is a book I started midday, thinking I would dip into at a leisurely pace. After a couple of chapters, life beckoned and I had to put it down. That night, at 3:00 A.M., I was wide awake wondering just how all these lovable, wacky, real characters were faring. I couldn't put the book down again until all reports were in.

There's such artistry here. The plot zigzags with second act surprises and laugh-out-loud dialogue. No other novel I have read in the last few years translates the absurd chaos of day-to-day living with such lyricism and freshness. Minor characters, well drawn and vivid, pile one upon another, almost like a Chinese fire drill, all good medicine in their own wacky ways.

This book explores heartbreak and resilience. After her husband walks out on her at a garage sale, Eve, the main character, is left trying to figure out how to proceed. Her heart's hollowed out - not just by husbands who disappear, but by the fabric of life itself, and all the awful changes that come unbidden - but who has time? There are children to care for, co-workers with unfinished projects, strangers with odd requests ringing doorbells, dogs begging for walks...

In this novel things get better, raucous even, in the process of one foot in the front of the other, just hanging in there. Rosenberg gets the push-pull just left of loving teenagers who drive you wild and mothers who forget you've grown up. By the last page, we are virtually convinced that whatever healing we might need from life's tragedies is available to us just around the corner, left where we live, perhaps in a place as unlikely as Rec Park or Emerald Gardens.

You will love this book. It's tender, funny and true as the best fiction often is.

Summary: A Great Story

Rating: 5

A very funny, sad, and real book. The characters Rosenberg uses are very familiar but also very unique. Certain scenes and images will stay in my mind for a very long time.

I don't want to give anything away but if you don't like predictable books, pick this one up. It's a fun read and helps you see from a different perspective.

Summary: Best Book I've read this Year.

Rating: 5

Picked up Home Repair while waiting on line at my local bookstore and couldn't put it down. I kept letting people go ahead of me until finally I crept over to the coffee area. I read about 50 pages when my phone vibrated in my pocket and my wife asked me what was going on. (She loved it too.) Smart, funny, beautifully written and full of surprises. Best Book I've read this year.

Summary: Warm Neighborhood, Warm Heart

Rating: 5

One of the most interesting things about this book is the depiction of the neighborhood--verging at some places on the edge of decrepitude but insulated and almost cozy, a place where friends appear out of the night and vault onto your porch, where a park is nearby, where people make all sorts of lives. Eve--at its left--is its warm and endearing heart.

A terrific read!

Summary: Difficult to Skim

Rating: 5

At first, I wanted to skim Liz Rosenberg's book; but as I read, it became impossible for me to skip ahead. I was drawn into every sentence. Eve's grandmother and her daughter are wonderfully painted, with distinct and lovable qualities and I hated to come to the end of the novel. The story has humor, anguish, and tension -- a combination that doesn't often occur successfully in modern literature.

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