A Watershed Year, Susan Schoenberger
A Watershed Year, Susan Schoenberger
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A Watershed Year

Author: Susan Schoenberger

Narrator: Amy McFadden

Unabridged: 9 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 01/07/2014

Synopsis

What it means to be a mother, what it takes to save a life.Lucy never confessed her love to her best friend, Harlan, before he passed away. Two months after his funeral, she is haunted by the power of things left unsaid. But then she receives the first of his e-mails arranged to be sent after his death. So begins the year that everything changes—Lucy’s watershed year.In an e-mail, Harlan says something that consumes her: he’s certain Lucy is destined for motherhood. In her grief, Lucy suddenly rediscovers hope, journeying to Russia to adopt a four-year-old boy. When she meets her son, Mat, for the first time, she realizes he is also mending a wounded heart and is just as lost as she is. Together, they learn to trust, each helping the other to heal.But just as they’re welcoming their new normal, Mat’s father comes to America to reclaim his son, revealing the truth about Mat’s past that might shatter Lucy’s fragile little family forever.Susan Schoenberger’s breathtaking and powerful story of love, loss, redemption, and what it means to be a mother will leave you in awe as Lucy, in the depths of her greatest despair, somehow finds her greatest joy and embraces the beauty of second chances.

About Susan Schoenberger

Susan Schoenberger is a writer and editor who lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with her husband and three (almost-grown) children. A Watershed Year, which won the gold medal in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, is her first novel. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Inkwell, Village Rambler, and Bartlebysnopes.com, among others. A longtime journalist, Susan has worked for the Baltimore Sun, the Hartford Courant, and many other newspapers and online publications. Please visit her website at susanschoenberger.com and follow her on Twitter @schoenwriter.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amara on October 28, 2011

Every sentence of this book is lyrical and evocative, wrapping grief in a padding of beautifully crafted sentences that allow you to follow the journey with your heart involved but intact. This story is equal parts melancholic, wise, challenging and funny. It seems impossible that this is Susan's fi......more

Goodreads review by Tanya on August 10, 2012

I am probably being a little harsh with my 2 star rating but i was disappointed buy this book. I just loved the concept of the main character recieving emails from the grave after a friend dies and think the entire book could have centered around that. There was about 10 pages in the book that i enjo......more

Goodreads review by Sara on July 14, 2012

Before I get into my review I will tell you that I liked the book. Is this a book I would grab off my shelf and re-read? Probably not, but mostly because I feel like I understood all aspects of the book enough that re-reading it wouldn't help me understand anything any better. I kind of loved Harlan......more

Goodreads review by Linda on January 18, 2014

I was charmed by Susan Schoenberger's first novel - the writing is lovely and the story is unique and captivating. Most of us have had one or more watershed years, a year when our perspectives shift, the reality of our lives change by chance or effort and the road going forward looks different than......more

Goodreads review by Lydia on December 01, 2011

Original review posted here People, this is not a little book. It’s 320 pages long. I started reading it at 9:30pm thinking I’d get a few chapters in. Next thing I knew I was closing the book and looking at my clock where the time of 4:30am was looking at me with accusation. I haven’t stayed up like......more

Quotes

“A well-told tale of life and death and the way, when we least expect it, love can encompass us roundabout...This is a brave and moving novel.” —Bret Lott, bestselling author of the Oprah Book Club Selection Jewel“Susan Schoenberger takes us to the softer places of the heart where love in all its forms and glory transforms grief into grace.” —Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Driftwood Summer“With subtle humor and grace, A Watershed Year draws out the ways in which our closest relationships can be imperfect and yet continue to transform us.” —Juliette Fay, bestselling author of Shelter Me“Thoughtful and uplifting reading of the power of a mother and family, A Watershed Year is an excellent pick.” —Midwest Book Review

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