Jimmy's Girl

Literature & Fiction

Gertler, Stephanie

Contemporary

Penguin

A suburban mom, Emily Hudson begins to fantasize about her teenage boyfriend, Jimmy Moran, and ends up in his arms again thirty years later. A first novel. Reprint.

Signet

The Puzzle Bark Tree

When Grace Hammond Barnett's parents die suddenly, she is bequeathed a lakeside house she never knew existed. Leaving her city life behind, she travels to the house for refuge-and meets a man who helps her unravel a devastating secret buried in her past...

Drifting

Readers and critics alike fell in love with Stephanie Gertler's Jimmy's Girl and The Puzzle Bark Tree, praised as "engaging [and] insightful" by Midwest Book Review. Now, fearlessly delving into the hidden depths of the heart, she has crafted a wise and moving novel about the bonds of mothers and daughters and the relationships we cherish.

Olivia and Carl's perfect life with their children and jobs as professors at Belvedere College in picturesque Willow, Massachusetts, begins to unravel when Carl, a seemingly stable and dependable man, vanishes without a trace, leaving behind only a cryptic note. Reprint.

The Windmill

United States

A suburban mom, Emily Hudson begins to fantasize about her teenage boyfriend, Jimmy Moran, and ends up in his arms again thirty years later. A first novel. 50,000 first printing. BOMC, Lit Guild, &amp; Doubleday Alt.

Romance

Dutton Adult

Struggling in an unfulfilling marriage after an unhappy childhood, Grace is shocked by her distant parents' double suicide and her inheritance of a lake cabin, where she meets a local fishing guide whose family history is bound to her own. 22,500 first printing.

The Puzzle Bark Tree: A Novel

Dutton

Haunted by the mother who abandoned her in babyhood, Connecticut innkeeper Claire finds herself bonding with a blind seven-year-old girl and struggling to help the child, whose father harbors a darker nature. 15,000 first printing.

Olivia and Carl's perfect life with their children and jobs as professors at Belvedere College in picturesque Willow, Massachusetts, begins to unravel when Carl, a seemingly stable and dependable man, vanishes without a trace, leaving behind only a cryptic note, as he travels back to his childhood hometown to confront old demons of the past that he has kept hidden from his family. 10,000 first printing.

During the Summer of 1967, sixteen-year-old Emily Hudson falls in love for the first time with Jimmy Moran just before he enlists in the Marine Corps and heads off to war. When he returns, both Emily and Jimmy have changed, and they go their separate ways. Now, thirty years later, Emily can’t stop thinking about Jimmy and wonders “what if?” Her question is answered when she finds him online. Although they are both married to other people, Emily and Jimmy meet again in Washington, DC, visiting the Vietnam War Memorial together and revisiting their lost love, ultimately having to decide if they deserve a second chance. Told in the alternating voices of Jimmy and Emily, this tender story explores misunderstanding and reconciliation in thought-provoking and poignant ways. "A tender evocation of lost love, and what it means to find it again." (Kirkus Reviews) "Sharp-eyed [and] impeccably detailed." (Marie Claire) "A sweet response to one of life's constant what-if questions." (Booklist, starred review)

Literary

Istoria Books

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Books by Gertler, Stephanie

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Jimmy's Girl

Jimmy's Girl

The Puzzle Bark Tree

Drifting

The Windmill

Jimmy's Girl

The Puzzle Bark Tree: A Novel

Drifting

The Windmill

Jimmy's Girl