The Sweet Folly of Hope (eBook, ePUB)
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It's 2000, San Francisco. Hope takes root in the hearts of a patched-together family and their neighbors struggling to turn a barren lot into a community garden. Steering their way through tantrums, turmoil, deadlines, loss, and family secrets they must face down their own inner frailties and save the garden from a greedy real-estate developer who plans to snatch their garden to build a high-rise.This charming urban love story is told through the eyes of five characters as their lives unfold over the course of four seasons. Lotte is a successful freelance writer who cherishes her well-ordered ...
It's 2000, San Francisco. Hope takes root in the hearts of a patched-together family and their neighbors struggling to turn a barren lot into a community garden. Steering their way through tantrums, turmoil, deadlines, loss, and family secrets they must face down their own inner frailties and save the garden from a greedy real-estate developer who plans to snatch their garden to build a high-rise.
This charming urban love story is told through the eyes of five characters as their lives unfold over the course of four seasons. Lotte is a successful freelance writer who cherishes her well-ordered life, hard-won after a difficult breakup. Everything turns topsy-turvy when her ex's daughter, Liz, a volatile recovering alcoholic, and Allegra, Liz's beguiling but troubled six-year old daughter move into Lotte's loft. Shy Mr. Adams, haunted by guilt from a tragic accident, is a reclusive high school janitor who prefers the uncommunicative company of teenage misfits...until the garden demands he come out of his shell. Nina is a smart, feisty public defender lawyer and single mom with a penchant for fancy shoes and bad boy lovers. The garden's future rests precipitously in her current crush's hands.
The Sweet Folly of Hope is a heartwarming, feel-good novel that weaves together reflections about love, family dynamics, friendship, recovery, community, and the healing power of gardening.
This charming urban love story is told through the eyes of five characters as their lives unfold over the course of four seasons. Lotte is a successful freelance writer who cherishes her well-ordered life, hard-won after a difficult breakup. Everything turns topsy-turvy when her ex's daughter, Liz, a volatile recovering alcoholic, and Allegra, Liz's beguiling but troubled six-year old daughter move into Lotte's loft. Shy Mr. Adams, haunted by guilt from a tragic accident, is a reclusive high school janitor who prefers the uncommunicative company of teenage misfits...until the garden demands he come out of his shell. Nina is a smart, feisty public defender lawyer and single mom with a penchant for fancy shoes and bad boy lovers. The garden's future rests precipitously in her current crush's hands.
The Sweet Folly of Hope is a heartwarming, feel-good novel that weaves together reflections about love, family dynamics, friendship, recovery, community, and the healing power of gardening.
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