Overview:
Linda and Robin Reismann barely know each other. The only thing that connects them is Linda’s six-week-old marriage to Robin’s father, who has suddenly died.
Widowed at twenty-six, Linda is heading to California to start over, uncertain what the future holds. In the trunk of her car, she carries her husband’s amateur paintings, along with his ashes. Robin, her silent, angry teenage stepdaughter, about to be left with relatives she’s never met, carries a private stash of pot and some closely guarded secrets. But these two women, journeying on a road alongside drifters and dreamers, lovers and liars, will discover something they never expected to find–between them and inside their hearts.
“A fictional success … so rich in well-realized characters [that] it raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height … very funny and very sad at the same time, gentle and humane in mood, fully believable in its parts and in its whole, Hearts is a novel of our time and, I feel quite certain, for some time to come.”
—The Washington Post Book World
“Splendid … Wolitzer’s ear is flawless; her dialogue has perfect pitch.… This is a comedy about the heart-wrenching process of growth; it is written with great skill.… Few readers will fail to be moved.”
—The New Republic
“Hilma Wolitzer has the extraordinary ability to make the ordinary into something rare and meaningful. She is a novelist whose central concern is our domestic lives, and she may well be the best such novelist we have.”
—JONATHAN YARDLEY, The Miami Herald
“Apt details of contemporary American life [and] an encompassing joie de vivre … delightful reading.”
—Library Journal
“Funny, sad … an unforgettable story.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A beautiful novel, inhabited by people one instantly believes in, and filled with honest, complex, resonant emotion … full of nice surprises that seem utterly natural, and it ends as perfectly as one could wish.”
—Los Angeles Herald Examiner
“Hilma Wolitzer is just the best.… Nobody makes me laugh and cry and care the way she does. Nobody else makes me so glad to be alive.”
—JUDY BLUME
“A beautiful book.”
—RICHARD YATES
ENJOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
And Blessed Are The Ones Who Care For Their Fellow Men!
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