Cari,

"The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho is the book we were trying to think of in San Fran (well, I don't know if it was the same book we were thinking of, but it's the one I was talking about.) I am going to start it this weekend. Casey just LOVED it. He also really loved "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion. I think I am going to read that one also. It is a true story about how a woman deals with the loss of her husband, and almost the loss of her daughter, in the same year.