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Title details for Twenty by Debra Landwehr Engle - Available

Twenty

A Touching and Thought-Provoking Women's Fiction Novel

by Debra Landwehr Engle
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"A book to hold against your heart long after the last page is turned."
—New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs

This warm and heartfelt novel will appeal to avid followers of Reese's Book Club picks. Twenty captures the provocative moral questions presented in the works of Jodi Picoult but with a hint of mystical wonder.

What happens when you decide to go...right when you finally learn how to live again....
"Along with naming me Marguerite after her favorite daisy, Mama gave me three things: Red hair that hasn't faded. A love of nature. And a belief that somewhere between heaven and earth there is magic."

At age fifty-five, Meg's life is too filled with loss for her to remember what magic feels like. All she has left is a yard brimming with plants that are wilting in the scorching Iowa summer—and a bone-deep feeling that she's through with living.

Meg has something else too: a bottle of mysterious pills, given to her years ago by an empathetic doctor. He promised that they would offer her dying mother a quick, painless end in exactly twenty days. Though her mother never needed them, Meg does. But a strange thing happens after Meg swallows the little green pearls . . .

Now that she's decided to leave this world, Meg is rediscovering the joy in it. She sheds everything she no longer needs—possessions, regrets, guilt—and reconnects with those she cares for. Finally confronting the depth of her grief, she's learning that love runs deeper still. But is it too late to choose to stay?

"Twenty reminds us to live with our hearts wide open even when they've been broken, and how to love even when it hurts."
—Julie Cantrell, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Perennials

"Written with such strong and heartfelt faith in the magic and power of never-ending love, it will renew your own."
—Judy Reene Singer, author of In the Shadow of Alabama

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    January 28, 2020

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      • ISBN: 9781496723581

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      • ISBN: 9781496723581
      • File size: 951 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      January 1, 2020
      Bestselling self-help writer Engle (Grace from the Garden, 2003) expands her repertoire to fiction with her novel about a woman who learns to love life in the time she has left. Meg is fifty-five and has suffered great loss in her life: the death of her child, the ending of her marriage, and most recently, the death of her beloved mother. Going through the motions of her day-to-day life is no longer fulfilling, and Meg comes to the realization that she is done living. Taking a bottle of pills meant for her mother's dementia, Meg now has twenty days left to live. Meg spends those days reconnecting with the world around her, and most importantly, with herself. Engle addresses sensitive topics, such as grief and assisted suicide, in a succinct fashion that is both impressive and surprising. In less than two hundred pages, the author delivers a thought-provoking story about what it means both to live and die. Although short, Twenty offers plenty for discussion, making it a great pick for book groups.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.)

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