Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda HolmesMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
4.0/5.0 - An enjoyable story about a woman whose husband dies on the day she plans to leave him and a major league baseball pitcher who has lost his mojo, and their long journey towards each other. Evvie Drake hasn't loved her husband, the town doctor, for a long time. When she receives a phone call while packing her car to leave him, telling her he's been in a serious accident, she feels guilty, and more guilty because she doesn't miss him. What no one knows, because she has kept it hidden and continues to do so, is that he was abusive to her, primarily verbally with a few incidents where she is actually injured (though not because he's hit her). She's in denial about the abuse.
Meanwhile, her best friend Andy suggests that she might want to rent an apartment in the back of her home, to his friend Dean, who is looking to escape NYC, where his star baseball career has abruptly ended. Evvie and Dean have a lot of healing to do, and over many months, with many bumps in the road, they do that, eventually finding their way on a road that leads to each other.
Pop Sugar #31: A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality (Holmes edits the Pop Culture Happy Hour blog on NPR)
Book 56 of 2021
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