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Original Title:	Home Repair
ISBN:	006173456X (ISBN13: 9780061734564)
Edition Language:	English

Home Repair Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

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Can lighting really strike twice? Just ask Eve, whose husband walks out on her in the middle of a garage sale.

Eve's beloved Ivan died thirteen years ago in an automobile accident. Her charming, boyish Chuck has taken a different exit out of her life: hopping into his car in the middle of a garage sale with no forewarning and departing their formerly happy upstate New York home for points unknown. Now Eve's a boat adrift, subsisting on a heartbreak diet of rue, disappointment, and woe-left alone to care for Ivan's brilliant teenaged son, Marcus, and Chuck's precocious, pragmatic nine-year-old daughter, Noni, while contending with Charlotte, Eve's acerbic mother, who's come north to "help" but hinders instead.

But life ultimately must go on, with its highs and lows, its traumas and holidays, and well-meaning, if eccentric, friends. A house and a heart in disrepair are painful burdens for a passionate woman who's still in her prime. And while learning to cope with the large and small tragedies that each passing day brings, Eve might end up discovering that she's gained much more than she's lost.

A poignant, lovely, funny, and ultimately uplifting story of love, family, and survival, Liz Rosenberg's Home Repair is an unforgettable introduction to a lyrical, wise, and wonderfully vibrant new literary voice.

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Title	:	Home Repair
Author	:	Liz Rosenberg
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	April 28th 2009 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published April 17th 2009)
Categories	:	Fiction. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit

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Ratings: 3.17 From 683 Users | 167 Reviews

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loved it. Hilarious and heartbreaking story of change and renewal.

I read an Advance Review Copy too and I think this book is amazing. The first reviewer must be a moron. Nothing happens? A woman's husband walks out on her in the middle of a tag sale-- which is hilarious and sad. Her mother moves to town. Some people fall in love. Enemies turn into friends. This woman has to hold it together when everything is falling apart. There are unexpected deaths, a lot of comedy, and at the end there's a marriage. Its like saying nothing happens in War & Peace. Life

Nabbed an advance copy and loved it! Very very funny, with one or two pinches of tragic. Guess I would compare it to Allegra Goodman, Laurie Colwin, Anne Tyler, Jane Austen. Felt like I knew these characters.

Boy, did I love this book! I practically devoured it at our beach house this summer. It's the kind of book I never wanted to end. I could relate to Eve and her story, not because my husband ever walked out on me, but because of all the little things she does and feels, her sharp observations that sometimes brought me to laugh out loud, sometimes had me at the edge of tears. I fell in love with the cranky old mother who means to help and especially loved the wild Thanksgiving scene. (T-giving is

Best novel I've read so far this year. Laugh out loud funny. Great book about being dumped when you least expect it.

It has been a good long while since I have read a book so well-written. The story is told so beautifully. Rosenberg has created very real characters - I felt sad when the book ended and I had to say goodbye to them!

3.5 stars