Unpublished endorsements"Who knew death, regret, and lengthy ruminations about days past could add up to a novel this vibrant, hopeful, and compelling? . . . Gorgeously written . . . McCorkle's greatest gift is in illuminating the countless tiny moments that make up our time on Earth." —O: The Oprah Magazine
"Clever, bighearted, and wise." —Vanity Fair
"The elderly residents of Pine Haven live and yearn and challenge one another with an exuberance that jumps off the page."—The New York Times "Home & Garden" section
"Leave it to McCorkle to plumb the ultimate new beginning in this down-home, Southern-style Book of the Dead. Illuminating, reassuring, and enlarging our understanding of the crossing from this world to the next, her novel sings with the mystical, the magical and the fragility of this thing called life.
