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The Forever Year
Author(s): Lou Aronica (Author)
- Publisher: The Story Plant
- Publication Date: 10 Sept. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 366 pages
- ISBN-10: 1611881005
- ISBN-13: 9781611881004
Book Description
USA TODAY BESTSELLERJesse Sienna doesn’t believe that love can last. His parents’ marriage was caring but passionless, and his own romantic history tells him that love can burn bright, but that it cannot burn for long. So when his elderly father, Mickey, moves in with him and seems unable to understand Jesse’s no-strings-attached relationship with Marina, his current girlfriend, Jesse barely pays attention. It’s just another example of how different they are – and more evidence that he and his father will never connect on any meaningful level.But the truth is, Mickey Sienna knows more about love than most people learn in a lifetime. More than half a century ago, he discovered the endless rewards of investing your heart and soul in someone…and he knows the devastating costs of letting the perfect someone slip by.When Mickey sees Jesse taking an extraordinary woman for granted, he decides it’s time to tell Jesse his story – a story he’s never shared with any of his children before. It is a story that will change both of them profoundly.At once a stirring family drama and a touching romance, THE FOREVER YEAR is filled with richly drawn characters and powerful situations. You will respond personally to the people you meet in this novel, and you will find yourself deeply enmeshed in their stories. And you might find yourself looking at love in a new way.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Better than Nicholas Sparks’s best. There’s more wit, more wisdom, and yes, there are tears.”–John R. Maxim, New York Times bestselling author
“The Forever Year is a warm, engaging story with a valuable contemporary lesson inside – it is well structured and funny and keeps you turning the pages till the very end to find out what happens. It may even make you rethink your own attitude toward love! I really enjoyed it.”–Suzanne Vega, multiplatinum recording artist
“The Forever Year is a wry, tender, beautifully written novel…. Once I started, I couldn’t put it down.”–Lisa Kleypas, New York Times bestselling author
“The Forever Year is pure pleasure from beginning to end, beautifully written and emotionally rich.”–Susan Elizabeth Phillips, New York Times bestselling author
About the Author
Lou Aronica is the author of the USA Today bestselling novel The Forever Year and the national bestsellers Blue, When You Went Away, The Journey Home, and Leaves. He collaborated on the New York Times nonfiction bestsellers The Element and Finding Your Element (both with Sir Ken Robinson) and Limitless (with Jim Kwik), and the USA Today bestsellers The Greatest You (with Trent Shelton) and The Culture Code (with Clotaire Rapaille). Aronica is a long-term book publishing veteran and is currently Chief Literary Officer of The Story Plant. He is a past president of the writers organization Novelists Inc. He has four children and two grandchildren and lives with his wife in Stamford, CT.
