THESE DREAMS [Advance Uncorrected Proof]

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atria Books, 2002. Advance Reading Copy (ARC) . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. Softcover. Advance Reading Copy (ARC)/Uncorrected Proof. "What would you do if you were going to live your life as if you only had a year to live?" A jolting question posed by a stranger in a supermarket checkout line sends Cricket Thompson to assess her 17 years of marriage to solid, reliable Jim and their two teenage daughters, Janis and Grace --- she finds herself lonely, Cricket is lonely --- and then, a sudden deeply violent, heartbreaking loss occurs. Suddenly Cricket is aware of all the changes that have taken place and sees her time spent with Christian Pass is overwhelming love. A powerful and heartwrenching novel. A story of how love grows in the most desolate of circumstances, and the very will to endure is challenged by the inexplicable design of the world we live in.