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Trudy Marino never expected her life to turn out perfectly. But at forty-six, she was quite happy with what she did have: her caring husband Rick . . . twenty-plus happy years raising three accomplished kids . . . and a lovely house in the artistic, vibrantly diverse town of Pueblo, New Mexico. But a heartbreaking discovery and a suddenly shattered marriage now has Trudy looking back on the options she didn’t make—and where she might go from here.
Struggling to get the pieces, Trudy finds support from a quirky, eclectic band of friends and neighbors—her goddesses of Kitchen Avenue—all of whom try in their own unique ways to navigate life’s little surprises. There’s Jade, a fiery social worker who’s finding unexpected strength to deal with her “player” ex-husband, thanks to a most unorthodox passion; Jade’s grandmother, Roberta, that has just lost her husband of sixty-two years—and through memory and piercing grief wonders how to proceed with the rest of her life; Shannelle, Trudy’s young neighbor and an aspiring writer, determined to understand her talent despite formidable obstacles . . . including the husband who’s afraid her success will be his loss; and Angel, a, quietly-knowing photographer who makes Trudy uncover a sensuality she never knew—even as he tries to get over the one love he can never really forget.
As Trudy faces her future, she discovers that determining what to release and what things to keep is merely as difficult as shifting. As she weighs what she and Rick still share against new possibilities, she’ll surprise everyone— including herself—as she tries to reconcile the best of both.
From an acclaimed voice in fiction, this is a wry, beguiling, heartfelt, and warmly wise novel about second chances, unexpected choices, and the dreams that we all hunger to fulfill.
