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Rebecca Winter, noted photographer of the iconic 'Kitchen series', whose work stagnated, is forced to economize and leases out her NYC apartment. The rent will allow her to lease a cottage 2 hours north, pay her mother's nursing home fees and help with her father's rent. She moves just before turning 60 and hopes to recharge her career. As she becomes part of the community and meets some of the locals she also begins looking at her life. She gets a job photographing birds of prey with Jim, her r
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Good grief! Does this woman (the protagonist) ever stop complaining?!? Is there no one, not one single person ever in her life that does not treat her badly, abuse her, disappoint her, not live up to her expectations?!? Is there nothing or no one in her life that she is unable to find fault, usually multiple faults, with?!? Does she every stop moaning and groaning, and fault finding, and complaining?!? Spoiler alert: the answer is NO. Literally right up to the very end of the book, she is findin
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May 18, 2017
Maggie Shanley
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Anna Quindlen is a great author and I love this homey story. This book is about finding beauty wherever you are and loving people that are good for you regardless of what you think you deserve or what other people think. Rebecca Winters is a photographer who is struggling financially after years of being well to do. She rents out her city apartment and plans to settle into her exile in rural New York while frantically trying to earn enough money to eat and help support her family. Instead, a rac
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I read it for a book club but enjoyed it myself. A good example of stepping back from a life that you aren't so sure of to get perspective
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preface this rating as I'm not a fan of chick lit. The story was predictable but an easy read.
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Jan 15, 2014
Renee
marked it as to-read
Aug 28, 2014
Tzivi
marked it as get-out-of-my-feed
Nov 14, 2014
Vickie
marked it as to-read
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Dec 09, 2014
Gretchen Hicks
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Dec 11, 2014
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Nov 03, 2015
Ev
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Jan 07, 2017
Chaitra
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Oct 20, 2017
Arielle Vanessa
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