This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!

Literature & Fiction

Evison, Jonathan

Genre Fiction

Windmill Books

Small World: A Novel

A New York Times Editors' Choice!\nOne of Booklist’s “Top 10 Historical Fiction Novels of 2022”\nOne of the Los Angeles Times's “10 Books to Add to Your Reading List”\nOne of Book Culture's Most Anticipated Reads\n“A bighearted, widescreen American tale.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)\n“Masterpiece . . . The quintessential great American novel.”—Booklist (starred review)\n“A vivid mosaic.”—BookPage (starred review)\nJonathan Evison’s Small World is an epic novel for now. Set against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush, the development of the transcontinental railroad, and a speeding train of modern-day strangers forced together by fate, it is a grand entertainment that asks big questions.\nThe characters of Small World connect in the most intriguing and meaningful ways, winning, breaking, and winning our hearts again. In exploring the passengers’ lives and those of their ancestors more than a century before, Small World chronicles 170 years of American nation-building from numerous points of view across place and time. And it does it with a fullhearted, full-throttle pace that asks on the most human, intimate scale whether it is truly possible to meet, and survive, the choices posed—and forced—by the age.\nThe result is a historical epic with a Dickensian flair, a grand entertainment that asks whether our nation has made good on its promises. It dazzles as its characters come to connect with one another through time. And it hits home as it probes at our country’s injustices, big and small, straight through to its deeply satisfying final words.

Dramas & Plays

Dutton

Four modern families aboard a passenger train hurtle into the night.\nOne hundred and seventy years earlier their forebearers make their way in a young nation built on grand promises.\nEach family follows their own path, only to find that their destinies are linked inextricably, the culmination of five generations of shared history.\nJonathan Evison’s Small World is a novel that speaks to the present moment, a grand adventure that explores the American experiment in its most human and intimate aspects, a novel that asks whether America has made good on those early promises.\nHumming with heart and adventure, and love and hope and ideas, Small World delivers the thrill of great storytelling straight through to its deeply satisfying conclusion.

From one of America's greatest, most creative novelists comes Again and Again, a poignant and endlessly surprising story about love lost, found, and redeemed Eugene "Geno" Miles is living out his final days in a nursing home, bored, curmudgeonly, and struggling to connect with his new nursing assistant, Angel, who is understandably skeptical of Geno's insistence on having lived not just one life but many--all the way back to medieval Spain, where, as a petty thief, he first lucked upon true love only to lose it, and spend the next thousand years trying to recapture it. Who is Geno? A lonely old man clinging to his delusions and rehearsing his fantasies, or a legitimate anomaly, a thousand-year-old man who continues to search for the love he lost so long ago? As Angel comes to learn the truth about Geno, so, too, does the reader, and as his miraculous story comes to a head, so does the biggest truth of all: that love--timeless, often elusive--is sometimes right in front of us.

Again and Again: A Novel

United States

West of Here (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)

Thorndike Press

After losing virtually everything meaningful in his life, Benjamin trains to be a caregiver, but his first client, a fiercely independent teen with muscular dystrophy, gives him more than he bargained for and the two embark on a road trip to visit the boy's ailing father.

The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving: A Novel (Wheeler Large Print Book Series)

Wheeler Publishing

Insightful, richly entertaining . . . Evison writes humanely and with good humor of his characters, who, like the rest of us, muddle through, too often without giving ourselves much of a break. A lovely, forgiving character study that s a pleasure to read. "Kirkus Reviews," starred review With Bernard, her husband of fifty-five years now in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance impulsively sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise that her late husband had planned. But what she hoped would be a voyage leading to a new lease on life becomes a surprising and revelatory journey into Harriet s past. Jonathan Evison has crafted a bighearted novel with an endearing heroine at the helm. Part dysfunctional love story, part poignant exploration of the mother-daughter relationship, nothing is what it seems in this tale of acceptance, reexamination, and forgiveness. A terrific novel, funny and moving, wistful and wise. Jonathan Evison s writing crackles on the page. Jess Walter, author of "Beautiful Ruins" "This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!" is as sweet as it is inventive, profound as it is hilarious, unflinching as it is bighearted. Maria Semple, author of "Where d You Go, Bernadette" " "[An] irresistible, inventive novel full of important ideas about how we live our lives as parents, children, partners, and human beings . . . Evison is a ridiculously gifted storyteller. Jami Attenberg, author of "The Middlesteins" A generous and wise tale, told with Evison s trademark verve and charisma, "This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!" is a deeply felt and deeply comforting novel. Patrick deWitt, author of "The Sisters Brothers" "This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! "has all the wonderful snap and sizzle we ve come to expect from Jonathan Evison s work, and as much heart as any novel I ve read in recent years. Ben Fountain, author of "Billy Lynn s Long Halftime Walk" Both uplifting and melancholy, funny and thought-provoking, this entertaining read speaks directly to the importance of acceptance and healing. "Booklist""

This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! (Wheeler Publishing Large Print Hardcover)

For Mike Muñoz, a young Chicano living in Washington State, life has been a whole lot of waiting for something to happen. Years out of high school and still doing menial work, just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew, he knows that he's got to shake things up if he's ever going to change his life. But how? This funny, angry, touching, and inspiring novel takes us into the heart and mind of a young man on a journey to discover himself.

Lawn Boy (Wheeler Publishing Large Print Hardcover)

Wheeler Publishing Large Print

It’s never too late to start again . . .
Recently widowed Harriet Chance is shocked to learn that her late husband had planned a surprise Alaskan cruise before his death. Not someone who has ever been particularly adventurous, Harriet sets sail anyway, only to discover through a series of revelations that all is not as she thought it was. Amid the endless buffets and tacky lounge singers, between the imagined appearance of her late husband and the very real arrival of her estranged daughter, Harriet is compelled to take a long look back, confronting the truth about her past with heart, humor, and some ill-advised honesty.
New York Times–bestselling author Jonathan Evison has crafted a big-hearted novel with a supremely endearing heroine at its centre. Through Harriet, he paints a bittersweet portrait of an unforgettable woman with great warmth, wit, and humanity. Part dysfunctional love story, part exploration of family relationships, and part coming–of–old–age,This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! is an utterly charming book about what it really means to begin again.

Humor & Satire

HarperAvenue

“A terrific novel, funny and moving, wistful and wise. Jonathan Evison’s writing crackles on the page.” ―Jess Walter, bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins
Recently widowed Harriet Chance is shocked to learn that her late husband had planned a surprise Alaskan cruise before his death. Not someone who has ever been particularly adventurous, Harriet sets sail anyway, only to discover through a series of revelations that all is not as she thought it was. Amidst the endless buffets and tacky lounge singers, between the imagined appearance of her late husband and the very real arrival of her estranged daughter, Harriet is compelled to take a long look back, confronting the truth about her past with heart, humour and some ill-advised honesty.
New York Times¬–bestselling author Jonathan Evison has crafted a big-hearted novel with a supremely endearing heroine at its centre. Through Harriet, he paints a bittersweet portrait of an unforgettable woman with great warmth, wit and humanity. Part dysfunctional love story, part exploration of family relationships and part coming of old age, This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! is an utterly charming book about what it really means to begin again.

Harper-perennial

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This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!

Small World: A Novel

Small World: A Novel

Again and Again: A Novel

West of Here (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)

The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving: A Novel (Wheeler Large Print Book Series)

This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! (Wheeler Publishing Large Print Hardcover)

Lawn Boy (Wheeler Publishing Large Print Hardcover)

This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!

This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!