Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town by Heather Lende

As the obituary author in a spectacularly appealing yet usually harmful spit of land in Alaska, Heather Lende understands whatever approximately final phrases and lives good lived. Now she’s distilled what she’s realized approximately how one can reside a extra exhilarating and significant lifestyles into 3 phrases: locate the great. It’s that simple--and that hard.

Quirky and profound, person and common, Find the great offers up brief chapters that aid us unlearn the habit--and it's a habit--of seeing simply the negatives. Lende reminds us that we will decide to see any event--starting a brand new activity or being laid off from an previous one, getting married or getting divorced--as a chance to discover the great. As she says, “We are all writing our personal obituary on a daily basis by way of how we are living. the simplest information is that there’s nonetheless time for additions and revisions sooner than it is going to press.”

Ever given that Algonquin released her first ebook, the ny Times bestseller If You Lived right here, I’d comprehend Your Name, Heather Lende has been praised for her storytelling expertise and her plainspoken knowledge. The Los Angeles Times known as her “part Annie Dillard, half Anne Lamott,” and that comparability hasn't ever been extra apt as she supplies us a clean, optimistic viewpoint from which to view our relations, our tasks, our priorities, our neighborhood, and our world.

An antidote to the cynicism and self-centeredness that we're bombarded with on a daily basis within the information, in our politics, or even now and then in ourselves, Find the nice helps us rediscover what’s correct with the world.

“Heather Lende’s small city is populated with sizeable hearts--she reveals them  at the seashore, jogging her granddaughters, within the tales of standard peoples’ lives, and knits them into unforgettable stories. Find the great is a treasure.” —Jo-Ann Mapson, writer of Owen’s Daughter

“Find the Good is superb corporation in unsteady occasions . . . Heather Lende is the type of individual you must take a seat around the kitchen desk from on a wet afternoon with a bottomless cup of tea. whilst issues get it wrong, whilst issues cross correct, her quiet, common-sense knowledge, self-examining frankness, and good-natured humor provide an opportunity to reset, renew, rebalance.”  —Pam Houston, writer of Contents could have Shifted

“With mild humor and empathy [Lende] introduces a few those that supply examples of ways to dwell good . . . [Find the Good] is easy but profound.”  —Booklist

“In this cynical world, locate the Good is a tonic, a literary wellspring, to be able to proceed to run, and nurture, even in occasions of drought. What a courageous and lovely factor Heather Lende has made with this book.” —John Straley, Shamus Award winner and previous author laureate of Alaska

“Heather Lende is a great author and extraordinary corporation: intimate, genuine, and as quirky as any of her subjects.” —Marilyn Johnson, writer of The useless Beat