The Things We Do for Love

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ΓÇó ΓÇ£[Kristin] Hannah is superb at delving into her main charactersΓÇÖ psyches and delineating nuances of feeling.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöThe Washington Post Book World Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSariaΓÇÖs heart. Following a painful divorce,she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her familyΓÇÖs restaurant. In West Endwhere life rises and falls like the tidesAngieΓÇÖs fortunes will drastically change yet again when she meets and befriends a troubled young woman. Angie hires Lauren Ribido because she sees something special in the seventeen-year-old. They quickly form a deep bondand when Lauren is abandoned by her motherAngie offers the girl a place to stay. But nothing could have prepared Angie for the far-reaching repercussions of this act of kindness. Togetherthese two womenΓÇöone who longs for a child and the other who longs for a motherΓÇÖs loveΓÇöwill be tested in ways that neither could have imagined. ΓÇ£Enormously entertaining . . . Hannah has a nice ear for dialogue and a knack for getting the reader inside the charactersΓÇÖ heads.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöThe Seattle Times