by Sandra Kring
Bantam Dell / Random House
ISBN-13 978-0-385-34120-2
$12.00 Trade Paperback
Fiction – set in Wisconsin
MBA Bookseller Information
Also available:
THE BOOK OF BRIGHT IDEAS
Delta / Random House
ISBN-13 978-0-385-33814-1
$13.00 Trade Paperback
CARRY ME HOME
Delta / Random House
ISBN-13 978-0-385-33813-4
$13.00 Trade Paperback
To inquire about bookstore events, book club appearances, and phoners with Sandra Kring, please contact Katie Rudkin, Bantam Dell Publicity, 212.782.9356, krudkin@randomhouse.com.
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About the Book
“Lucy, at eleven, refers to herself as people-smart, which is what this quirky and cranky family really needs. Kring’s familiar subject of going home to face the demons of the past is told with heart. Her characters are real and will be with you long after the last page.”
- Beverly Bauer, Redbery Books, Inc., Cable WI
At eleven, Lucy Marie McGowan already knows she’ll be a psychologist when she grows up. And her quirky and conflicted family provides plenty of opportunity for her to practice her calling. Now Lucy, her “profoundly gifted” twin brother, Milo, her commitment-phobic mother, and her New Age grandmother are leaving Chicago for Timber Falls, Wisconsin, to care for her dying grandfather-a complex and difficult man whose failure as a husband and father still painfully echoes down through the years.
Lucy believes her time in the rural town where the McGowan story began will provide a key piece to the puzzle of her family’s broken past, and perhaps even reveal the truth about her own missing father. But what she discovers is so much more-a lesson about the paradoxes of love and the grace of forgiveness that the adults around her will need help in remembering if their family is ever to find peace and embrace the future.
By turns heart-wrenching and heart-mending, Thank You for All Things is a powerful and poignant novel by a brilliant storyteller who illustrates that when it comes to matters of family and love, often it is the innocent who force others to confront their darkest secrets.
SANDRA KRING is also the author of THE BOOK OF BRIGHT IDEAS and CARRY ME HOME. She lives in the north woods of Wisconsin. She runs support groups and workshops for adult survivors of trauma. Her debut novel Carry Me Home was a Book Sense Notable pick and a 2005 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award nominee.
Visit Sandra’s website at www.sandrakring.com.
