Book Review: The Last Beach Bungalow

FOR SALE:

the last beach bungalow

The owner of this 1928 original bungalow is seeking a buyer with heart. What would you give--besides money--to live here? Bring your offers, your stories, and a promise to perserve and protect.

Winner will pay $300,000
Open House, Saturday 1 to 4

And so, she embarks on a personal - and intitially secret - mission to find a way to bid on the house. She also deigns to figure out why things just don't seem right during a time that should be full of celebration. She is about to move back into her newly remodeled home - upgraded and beautifully reinvented by her loving husband, her work is going well, and she is beating the odds with regard to her illness.

In a largely narrative style, Nash seems to draw on personal experiences and, perhaps, memories especially when she writes about April's cancer and her writing career. A cancer survivor herself, Nash is also the author of The Victoria's Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming: and Other Lessons I Learned From Breast Cancer. Much like her heroine, Nash appears to have remembered how to celebrate life, rather than how to live life as an act of dying. Her writing is full of details and everyday situations that female readers will certainly relate to - choosing a color palette for the new bathroom, buying lingerie and trying to seduce her husband in a new way.

The relative details, along with a hefty slate of discussion questions at the end of the book, make it a sensible and entertaining choice for women's book clubs. Please JOIN US on Thursday, March 6 @ 7PM ET for a live chat with author Jennie Nash.


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