Thank You for All Things: A Novel

About this book

At twelve Lucy Marie McGowan already knows shell be a psychologist when she grows up. And her quirky and conflicted family provides plenty of opportunity for her to practice her calling. Now Lucy her profoundly gifted twin brother Milo her commitment-phobic mother and her New Age grandmother are leaving Chicago for Timber Falls Wisconsin to care for her dying grandfathera complex and difficult man whose failure as a husband and father still painfully echoes down through the years. Lucy believes her time in the rural town where the McGowan story began will provide a key piece to the puzzle of her familys broken past and perhaps even reveal the truth about her own missing father. But what she discovers is so much morea lesson about the paradoxes of love and the grace of forgiveness that the adults around her will need help in remembering if their family is ever to find peace and embrace the future. By turns heart-wrenching and heart-mending Thank You for All Things is a powerful and poignant novel by a brilliant storyteller who illustrates that when it comes to matters of family and love often it is the innocent who force others to confront their darkest secrets.