Sweet Vidalia

This life-affirming novel follows a fifty-seven-year-old woman forced to rebuild her life, unexpectedly and alone, in 1960s Texastellinga wonderfully wise and compassionate story of the extraordinary courage it takes to live a seemingly ordinary life (Shelley Read, author of Go As a River) and proving it's never too late to come of age (Kirkus Reviews). Its 1964 and Eliza Kratke is mostly content. Married thirty years, she is long settled in Bayard, Texas with two grown children, a nice house, a little dog, and a routine. But her husband has a secret, and Eliza has not been brave enough to demand to know what it is. So when her husband dies suddenly, the ground doesnt just shift under Elizas feetit falls away entirely, revealing that she has known nothing true about her life. How should she come to terms with all that has been a lie? ...