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Joy For Beginners


A Literary Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Women's Fiction,
  • Female Friendship,
  • Interconnected Stories
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Friend groups daring each other into big life changes
  • Interwoven stories of women facing personal fears
  • Uplifting reads about second chances after illness
Publisher Description

From national bestselling author of Reese Witherspoon's Book Club pick The Scent Keeper comes a beautifully crafted novel about daring to experience true joy, starting one small step at a time.

Having survived a life-threatening illness, Kate celebrates by gathering with six close friends. At an intimate outdoor dinner on a warm September evening, the women challenge Kate to start her new lease on life by going white-water rafting down the Grand Canyon with her daughter. But Kate is reluctant to take the risk. That is, until her friend Marion proposes a pact: if Kate will face the rapids, each woman will do one thing in the next year that scares her. Kate agrees, with one provision—she didn't get to choose her challenge, so she gets to choose theirs.

Whether it's learning to let go of the past or getting a tattoo, each woman's story interweaves with the others, forming a seamless portrait of the power of female friendships.

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