The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
Patrick, Phaedra In the curiously charming first novel from the author of The Messy Lives of Book People, a lovable widower goes on a life-changing adventure
Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and sweater vest, waters his fern and heads out to his garden.
But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, somet...