Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center

Katherine writes laugh-and-cry books about how life knocks us down-and how we get back up.

And how the more good things we look for, the more we find.īookPage calls Katherine Center “the reigning queen of comfort reads.” She’s the New York Times bestselling author of over half a dozen books, including How to Walk Away, Things You Save in a Fire, and What You Wish For. It’s a story that looks at how our struggles lead us to our strengths. Happiness for Beginners is Katherine Center at her most heart-warming, captivating best-a nourishing, page-turning, up-all-night read about how to get back up. And how sometimes getting really, really lost is your only hope of getting found. Like how to keep going, even when you think you can’t. kiss her.īut it turns out sometimes disaster can teach you exactly the things you need to learn. And she especially doesn’t anticipate that her annoying brother’s even-more-annoying best friend, Jake, will show up for the exact same course-and distract her, derail her, and. She doesn’t anticipate the surprise summer blizzard, for example-or the blisters, or the rutting elk, or the mean pack of sorority girls. It’s nothing like she wants, or expects, or anticipates. So when her annoying younger brother, Duncan, convinces her to sign up for a hardcore wilderness survival course in the backwoods of Wyoming-she hopes it’ll be exactly what she needs. Newly divorced at thirty-two, her life has fallen apart beyond her ability to put it together again. Helen Carpenter can’t quite seem to bounce back. From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away and Things You Save in a Fire

Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center