A Life of Bright Ideas: A Novel

A Life of Bright Ideas: A Novel

A secret tore best friends Evelyn â€œButtonâ€ Peters and Winnalee Malone apart. Now, nearly a decade later, a secret brings them back together.
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Nine years ago Button and Winnalee began recording observations in their Book of Bright Ideas, a tome they believed would solve the mystery of how to live a mistake-free life. Now itâ€™s 1970, a time of peace, love, war, and personal heartbreak.Â Buttonâ€™s mother is dead and her grieving father has all but abandoned his children. Quiet, thoughtful Button has traded college for a sewing job in her motherâ€™s bridal shop to help her Aunt Verdella raise her whirlwind six-year-old brother. In Buttonâ€™s free time, she writes letters to the boy she loved from afar through high school, hoping he will come to love her as more than a friend.

Then, like that magical Wisconsin summer of â€™61, Button is greeted with the wild, gusty arrival of Winnalee. Now a beautiful flower child, Winnalee is everything Button is not. Sheâ€™s been to Woodstock and enjoys â€œfree love,â€ but their steadfast bond of friendship is tested as Button begins to notice the cracks in Winnaleeâ€™s carefree faÃ§ade. And then Winnaleeâ€™s mother arrives with a surprise that Button never sees coming, and the fiery determination to put things right in both families once and for all.
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Country USA
Manufacturer Bantam
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2012-02-07
EANs 9780553386820

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Bantam
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2012-02-07
EANs	9780553386820

A Life of Bright Ideas: A Novel

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