EBOOK READ (Digging In) ã Loretta Nyhan

• Audio CD
• 8
• Digging In
• Loretta Nyhan
• English
• 19 October 2019
• 9781543641929

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Digging In Read ↠ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Loretta Nyhan à 0 Review Read Digging In Listening Length 7 hours and 18 minutes In author Loretta Nyhan’s warm witty and wonderful novel a widow discovers an unexpected chance to start over right in her own backyardPaige Moresco found her true love in eighth grade and lost him two years ago Since his death she’s been sleepwalking through life barely holding on for the sake of her teen I don t know how to rate my own book Some days I m likefive stars baby You ve got it going on Other days I could maybe maybe muster up one measly star Writers are fickle And very self critical Also maybe a little nutso from working alone all the time What I can say is that I m very proud of this book I give my pride in it five stars Abso freaking lutelyThe initial idea for this book came from an article I read about ten years ago A local woman worked for the Chicago Tribune in the marketing department She saw the writing on the wall and knew she was going to get the heave ho She pre empted that by turning in her resignation going home and thinkingnow what She decided to dig up her backyard and plant vegetables a one woman CSA People bought tickets all summer to come and pick what they wanted She made enough money to buy herself some precious time She was mid life and wanted to figure out what she really wanted to do I have no idea what happened to her but the story lit a slow burning fire in the house of my imagination one that flared off and on over the years After finishing my previous novel ALL THE GOOD PARTS I had some ideas for my next book bumping around in my brain but this memory kept rising elbowing the others to the side I started writing Paige s story tooling along uite nicely untilMy husband left to play a round of golf on a sunny Saturday morning in May of 2016 He never came home Massive heart attack Gone at age 45We d been married almost twenty years Happy years I loved him and he loved me and we always had each other s backs The devastation nearly did me in I couldn t write a word Heck I could barely manage basic things like cooking and driving and laundry Grief messed with my brain turning me into a zombie for four or five months The energy I could muster went towards easing our boys into this new very different life one they never asked for and never ever would have wantedAbout five months after Tom died I went to the bookstore where I ran into a friend and fellow writer How s the writing going she asked Terrible I said I can t write a thing The words won t come She hugged me It s because you only have one story in your head right now So that s what you need to writeSo that s what I did I wrote about how to find yourself again after tragedy I wrote about feelings of isolation and loneliness about guilt and fear and ultimately about discovering the strength to live again These are some heavy things but believe me this book is not a downer Humor is the key to finding joy in life And being able to feel that joy is essential in moving forward after lossI hope you enjoy Paige s story I hope you re entertained and moved and that it makes you think a little bit Maybe if you ve experienced the devastation of losing someone close to you it ll offer some comfort Now that s worth five stars to meXOXOLoretta

Digging In Read ↠ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Loretta Nyhan à 0 Review Read Digging In Age son Her house is a wreck the grass is overrun with weeds and she’s at risk of losing her job As Paige stares at her neglected lawn she knows she’s hit rock bottom So she does something entirely unexpected she begins to digAs the hole gets bigger Paige decides to turn her entire yard into a vegetable garden The neighbors in her tidy gated com Based solely on the blurb I figured that Digging In would be a fairly heavy read following Paige as she works through her grief after losing her husband While grief is definitely at the core of this novel it wasn t depressing or bleak instead it was full of humor wit and heart which was just such a breath of fresh airSadly Nyhan lost her own husband so she has firsthand experience in the way a widow may feel and behave and while she acknowledges that her situation wasn t exactly like Paige s the authenticity is heavily apparent Paige was incredibly well drawn This isn t a story about a bereaved woman who does everything perfectly and makes no mistakes It s a realistic portrayal of a woman living the unthinkable who is just doing her best She s trying and at the end of the day who can t relate to someone who is simply trying to do their bestThis was an effortless read I flew through it and loved every single page Yes there were sad moments especially watching Paige s son Trey deal with the loss of his father two years on his struggle broke me But ultimately this was full of life vitality and humor the messy side of life the things that aren t pretty but it was honest and really beautifully doneDigging In in three words Wise Witty and Affecting

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Digging In Read ↠ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Loretta Nyhan à 0 Review Read Digging In Munity are than a little alarmed Paige knows nothing about gardening and she’s boldly flouting neighborhood association bylaws But with the help of new friends a charming local cop and the transformative power of the soil Paige starts to see potential in the chaos of her life Something big is beginning to take root both in her garden and in hersel I want to scream from the rooftops I love this book What a delightful funny authentic and rather wise story about the healing power of gardening and the struggle to re root yourself after crippling loss Paige is an extraordinary heroine smart funny kind outspoken uirky You feel the rawness of her grief but there s no sentimentality and she has cracking good lines such as I m trying to bring me back or I pressed the Pause button on life and then lost the remote The supporting cast of characters is eually wonderful and off beat Officer Leprechaun who s first line to Paige had me in hysterics Trey the teenager who struggles to understand why his mother is tearing up their back yard and refuses to learn how to drive the grumpy neighbor with his own issues and Paige s ragtag crew of new friends coworkers in her dysfunctional office and the organic gardener with carrots in her hair If you want to find humor hope and pure entertainment this is the book for you Did I mention that I loved it