this is your life harriet chance by jonathan evison

Part dysfunctional love story, part poignant exploration of the mother/daughter relationship, nothing is what it seems in this tale of acceptance, reexamination, forgiveness, and, ultimately, healing. I had just read (and loved), Evisons book The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving when I received his latest novel, This is Your Life, Harriet Chance. Through Harriet, he paints a bittersweet portrait of a postmodern everywoman with great warmth, humanity, and humor. Jonathan Evison has crafted a bighearted novel with an endearing heroine at its center. It had been booked by her husband, Bernard, before his death and almost on a whim. Jonathan Evison is a ridiculously gifted storyteller: racing, breathless, and vibrant with his prose, hungry for personal truths, and clearly in love with. There, amid the buffets and lounge singers, between the imagined appearance of her late husband and the very real arrival of her estranged daughter, Harriet is forced to take a long look back, confronting the truth about pivotal events that changed the course of her life. The cruise to Alaska came as something of a surprise to Harriet Chance. With her husband Bernard two years in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise only to discover that she’s been living the past sixty years of her life under entirely false pretenses.

Visual indication that the title is an audiobook. This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! is as sweet as it is inventive, profound as it is hilarious, unflinching as it is bighearted.” -Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance audiobook (Unabridged) By Jonathan Evison. With her husband Bernard two years in the grave, seventy-nine-year-old Harriet Chance sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise only to discover through a series of revelations that shes been living the past sixty years of her life under entirely false pretenses.

This is your life harriet chance by jonathan evison