Home Again
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Madelaine Hillyard is a world-famous heart surgeon at the top of her game. Her personal life is far less successful. A loving but overworked single mom, she is constantly at odds with her teenage daughter. At sixteen, Lina is confused, angry, and fast becoming a stranger to her mother—a rebel desperate to find the father who walked away before she was born. Complicating matters for Madelaine are the vastly different DeMarco brothers: While priest Francis DeMarco is always ready to lend a helping hand, his brother, Angel, long ago took on the role of bad boy. Years earlier Angel abandoned Madelaine—and fatherhood—to go in search of fame and fortune. His departure left Madelaine devastated, but now he reappears and seeks help from the very people he betrayed—as a patient in dire need. With Home Again, New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah has written a moving, powerful novel about the fragile threads that bind together our lives and the astonishing possibility of second chances.
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You like conflict? HOME AGAIN has it in spades. Although the situation is unlikely—you are dear friends with the Catholic priest and brother of the boyfriend who left you pregnant—it gets even more unlikely—the female main character is a heart surgeon and the ex-boyfriend needs a heart transplant.
There just enough medical and religious detail to make the story cohesive without be a drag. I like to see how Hannah has her character's evolve. Not just the main characters either. The supporting cast, like the teenage daughter, also transforms.
The author also has a way of describing the scenery that makes it another character and not a weather report. The ending might be a little predictable but getting there was fun.