The Way Life Should Be by Christina Baker Kline

The Way Life Should Be by Christina Baker Kline

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The Way Life Should Be by Christina Baker Kline

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, and the critically acclaimed author of Bird in Hand, comes a novel of love, risk, and self-discovery--includes a special PS section featuring insights, interviews, and more.

Angela can feel the clock ticking. She is single in New York City, stuck in a job she doesn't want and a life that seems to have, somehow, just happened.  She inherited a flair for Italian cooking from her grandmother, but she never seems to have the time for it--these days, her oven holds only sweaters. Tacked to her office bulletin board is a photo from a magazine of a tidy cottage on the coast of Maine--a charming reminder of a life that could be hers, if she could only muster the courage to go after it.

On a hope and a chance, Angela decides to pack it all up and move to Maine, finding the nudge she needs in the dating profile of a handsome sailor who loves dogs and Italian food.  But her new home isn't quite matching up with the fantasy. Far from everything familiar, Angela begins to rebuild her life from the ground up. Working at a local coffeehouse, she begins to discover the pleasures and secrets of her new small-town community and, in the process, realizes there's really no such thing as the way life should be.

Christina Baker Kline is a novelist and nonfiction writer. She is the author of the novel Sweet Water, and coauthor of The Conversation Begins: Mothers and Daughters Talk About Living Feminism. She has taught creative writing at Yale, New York University, and the University of Virginia, and currently resides in New York City with her husband, David, and her two children, Hayden and William.
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ISBN 13 9780060798918
ISBN 10 0060798912
Title The Way Life Should Be
Author Christina Baker Kline
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published 2007-07-31
Number of pages 288
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.