Open House - Large Print Author:Elizabeth Berg What do you do when your husband packs up and walks out on you after 20 years? If you're Samantha Morrow, you dash to Tiffany's on a credit-card shopping spree and give away your purchases; you make a Martha Stewart breakfast for your 11-year-old son who just wants Cherrios; and you cook an elaborate Thanksgiving dinner and dine by candl... more »elight alone!
But when the financial reality of divorce finally hits, Sam finds a novel way to meet the mortgage payments; she takes in boarders. As she opens her home to a maladjusted college student, a wise older woman and an elegant hairdresser-and befriends a shaggy-haired moving man with a sensitive soul, she begins to open her heart as well. By then, you'll feel Sam's joys and sorrows as deeply as if they were your own - and realize you'll miss her long after the last page is turned.« less