Probably the warmest/kindest was The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper - Phaedra Patrick, in which an isolated widower finds an unfamiliar charm bracelet in his late wife's things. Each charm relates to a part of her life he hadn't known, and as he looks deeper into each one he travels further out of the rut he settled into after her death and connects with new people, some of whom also loved his wife, and reconnects with their grown children.
The one that's still in my head even though I read it back in January of last year is What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez - Claire Jiminez. Ruthy disappeared without a trace at 13, and in present-day chapters narrated by her mother, older sister, and baby sister we see that her family never really recovered. There are also occasional chapters narrated by Ruthy in the days and hours before her disappearance. A dozen years later, her sisters see the villain of a trashy reality show who looks just like Ruthy might have grown up to, and the family ends up on a chaotic roadtrip to attend a taping of the show to see if it could possibly be her.
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Probably the warmest/kindest was The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper - Phaedra Patrick, in which an isolated widower finds an unfamiliar charm bracelet in his late wife's things. Each charm relates to a part of her life he hadn't known, and as he looks deeper into each one he travels further out of the rut he settled into after her death and connects with new people, some of whom also loved his wife, and reconnects with their grown children.
The one that's still in my head even though I read it back in January of last year is What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez - Claire Jiminez. Ruthy disappeared without a trace at 13, and in present-day chapters narrated by her mother, older sister, and baby sister we see that her family never really recovered. There are also occasional chapters narrated by Ruthy in the days and hours before her disappearance. A dozen years later, her sisters see the villain of a trashy reality show who looks just like Ruthy might have grown up to, and the family ends up on a chaotic roadtrip to attend a taping of the show to see if it could possibly be her.